Madrid museum faces new fight over stolen Pissaro masterpiece
mainA San Francisco appeals court has reopened the battle over Camille Pissarro’s 1897 painting “Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie”.
Owned by the Cassirer family, it was seized by the Nazis and is now in the hands of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, which has an impressive museum i Madrid. The family want t back. Battle is rejoined here.
Can somebody explain why, if the painting was taken from the owners in Germany and it is now in Spain, a court in San Francisco deals with the case?
Claude Cassirer emigrated to California, and his heirs are still based there. The claim is therefore filed in California.