The Supreme Court on Thursday kept alive a San Diego man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.
Cassirer's lawyer Scott Gant said he hoped that Spain and the foundation that runs the museum for the Spanish government would “reflect, and conclude they should return the painting rather than maintain their longstanding refusal to do what is just.”
The story of the stolen Pissarro painting goes back to Cassirer's great-grandmother Lilly Cassirer, a German Jew. She had owned the 1897 oil painting, one of a series of 15 that Pissarro painted of a Paris street as seen from his hotel window. In 1958, Lilly Cassirer reached a monetary settlement with the German government worth about $250,000 in today's dollars, but she didn’t give up rights to try to pursue the painting if it turned up.
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