The Supreme Court is keeping alive a La Mesa man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.
The dispute over Camille Pissarro's"Rue Saint-Honore, Afternoon, Rain Effect" stems from a lawsuit filed by now-deceased La Mesa resident Claude Cassirer, who alleged he and his family should retain ownership of the painting rather than the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, an entity controlled by the Kingdom of Spain.
The painting exchanged hands over the decades and was eventually sold to the foundation, which placed it in its museum in Madrid. While lower courts ruled that Spanish property law should govern the painting's ownership -- resulting in a ruling awarding the piece to the foundation -- the high court unanimously ruled that the case should return to a lower court and California law should be applied to determine the painting's ownership.
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