One of the most protracted restitution cases has gone to a new level: the heirs of Claude Cassirer's got the right to sue again with Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum by Camille Pissarro painting "Rue Saint-Honore. It is noon. Rain "

Camille Pissarro Rue Saint - Honore
Noon. Rain . 1897
Source : latimes.com

One of the most protracted restitution cases has gone to a new level : the heirs received the right to sue again with Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum by Camille Pissarro painting " Rue Saint - Honore. It is noon. Rain "( 1897). About 10 years a resident of San Diego Claude Cassirer tried to return to the restitution this picture , which belonged to his grandmother Lilly and which she was forced to sell , fleeing from Nazi persecution . Transaction amount in 1939 was only $ 390 . Cassirer was later paid a small compensation - 13 thousand dollars. A painting , replacing several owners , settled in Madrid meeting of the Museum Thyssen , who refuses to return it , as to the illegal sale of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza relationship had not. Claude Cassirer had already died , and now for Pissarro masterpiece fighting his family - David and Ava Cassirer .

Last week, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit United States ruled that the heirs can still sue Madrid museum. This decision denies a previous ruling of the court of lapse of time the case. Cassirer case again returned to the lower court .

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : latimes.com , artinvestment.ru