Camille Pissarro
Street Saint-Honore. Noon. Rain. 1897
Source: artdaily.com

After seven years of litigation the Court Central District of California in Los Angeles has finally made a decision on the lawsuit by Claude Cassirer restorative to the Foundation Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza. The heir claimed the painting by Camille Pissarro in 1897 "Street of St. Honore. Noon. Rain ", but according to the court, the legal owner of cloth was found in Madrid Museum.

originally belonged to the work of Pissarro grandmother Cassirer, Berlin Jew Lilly Cassirer Neubauer (Lilly Cassirer Neubauer), which in 1939 -m has been forced to give a picture of the Nazis to get exit visas from Germany. For several decades, the picture passed from hand to hand, and finally in 1976 was bought by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza), did not know about its prewar provenance. In 1993 Pissarro painting, along with other works from the collection of Baron was bought Spanish government and became part of the famous Madrid Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza. Since then, the urban landscape Rue Saint-Honore was exhibited on a regular basis, in the studies published about the artist, etc.

In 2000, Claude Cassirer was first applied to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation with a request return to the work of Pissarro. After a detailed investigation of the provenance, foundation staff found that in 1958 Claude Cassirer German government had already been compensated for my grandmother and now that, according to the concluded agreement, then all the controversy surrounding the painting then had been resolved. The Fund refused to voluntarily return the Pissarro painting heir, and in 2005 Cassirer decided to demand his return to court.

After much wrangling about what may or may not be treated in a U.S. court case about the actions of the Spanish Foundation, the American justice system still came to the conclusion that yes, it can be. The case considered in Court, Central District of California in Los Angeles, but the judges had to admit that the federal laws of the country the right to sue foreign institutions are contrary to the local California law on the right to file restitution claims in another state, and in this case, the advantage rests with the federal laws. In addition, the court referred to the compensation in 1958, which recognized the legitimate.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru