US Appeal Court upholds museum’s ownership of Nazi-looted painting

The US Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, recently declared that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum can retain a Camille Pissarro painting looted by the Nazis from a Jewish woman. 

The court, in a 3-0 decision, dismissed the ownership claim pursued by her heirs for over two decades. The case, one of the oldest Nazi art theft disputes, began in 2005 and reached the US Supreme Court two years ago.

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The painting, titled “Rue Saint Honore, Afternoon, Rain Effect,” stolen in 1939 from Lilly Neubauer, changed hands until Thyssen purchased it in 1993. Neubauer’s grandson initiated the legal battle in 2001, seeking the painting’s return, and the case is now managed by his son David, his daughter Ava’s estate, and the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County.