Opinion
Nazis stole a Camille Pissarro painting from a Jewish woman in 1939. It should be returned to her family, no matter what a court says.
Jan. 13, 2024
California
For 25 years, a painting by the Impressionist master Camille Pissarro has hung on a museum wall in Spain.
Dec. 3, 2018
Almost 80 years ago, Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Germany during the Holocaust.
July 10, 2017
Obituaries
The painting of a Parisian street scene by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro hangs in a Madrid museum and is the focus of an ongoing legal battle.
Feb. 21, 2020
Entertainment & Arts
A Jewish family from San Diego that has been seeking to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that a relative sold during the Holocaust has received a legal victory from a panel of judges who ruled this week that the family can pursue the case, reversing an earlier court decision that had favored the painting’s present owner.
Dec. 11, 2013
When Lilly Cassirer inherited a Camille Pissarro painting of a rainy Paris streetscape in 1926, she hung the Impressionist gem on the wall of her parlor in Berlin.
Dec. 14, 2016
An appeals court has ruled that a Camille Pissarro painting looted by the Nazis may remain the property of a Spanish museum that acquired it in 1992.
Aug. 19, 2020
The back-and-forth legal drama over an Impressionist masterpiece that hangs in a Spanish museum has seemingly come to the end of the road for a San Diego family, which is left with nothing to show for their decade-long battle to reclaim the artwork they say was seized from them by Nazis 80 years ago.
May 1, 2019
A federal court Tuesday rejected a Jewish family’s decades-long legal fight for a famous Pissarro painting that was taken from them by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II and is currently at a museum in Spain.
Jan. 9, 2024
A Camille Pissarro painting looted by Nazis from a Jewish woman in Berlin rightfully belongs to the Spanish museum that ultimately acquired it, or so a U.S.
May 2, 2019