MADRID (AP) – A leading Spanish museum said on April 22 it’s confident that U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French Impressionist painting once taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum, and not to descendants of the family.
Supreme Court hears case re: Pissarro painting stolen by Nazis
WASHINGTON (AP) – A California man and a Spanish museum locked in a dispute over a valuable impressionist masterpiece stolen by the Nazis should be able to agree on one thing, Justice Stephen Breyer said January 18 during arguments in the case at the Supreme Court. Can everyone agree that this is a beautiful painting?,” Breyer asked near the end of an hour of arguments. The painting is a streetscape, now worth millions, by French impressionist Camille Pissarro. The case itself is not directly about ownership of the painting but about how to decide the case, which has been going on since 2005. Lower courts had sided with the museum.