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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...a Parisian street scene painted by Camille Pissarro. The work, an atmosphere depiction of a rain-soaked Paris boulevard, had hung on the walls of the family's Berlin and Munich homes since the impressionist painted it four decades earlier... is today estimated to be worth $20m. It hangs in Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. This week, a court in Los Angeles ruled that Lilly's grandson, Claude Cassirer, can continue a lawsuit against the museum and the Spanish state to recover the painting.

2 posted on 09/14/2009 8:27:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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3 posted on 09/14/2009 4:40:53 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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