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  • New California Law May End the Legal Dispute Over a Nazi-Looted Pissarro in Madrid

    09/18/2024 3:10:37 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    ARTnews ^ | September 17, 2024 | Daniel Cassady
    A bill signed into law this week by California Governor Gavin Newsom may signal the beginning of the end of a decades-long dispute between the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the heirs of a Jewish collector over the rightful ownership of a work sold under duress during the Nazi regime. In 1939, Lilly Cassirer Neubauer was forced to sell an 1897 oil by Camille Pissarro to a Nazi art appraiser in order to flee Germany before the impending war. According to court documents, the Pissarro, titled Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain, fetched only $360 (modern USD). The...