Museum can keep $40 million Nazi-looted Pissarro painting - US court

A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court has ruled.

A woman walks past artworks at the exhibition "Gurlitt: Status Report. An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany" during a media preview at Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany, September 13, 2018

(photo credit: REUTERS/FABRIZIO BENSCH)

ByMARCY OSTER/JTA

AUGUST 20, 2020 05:28

Museum can keep $40 million Nazi-looted Pissarro painting - US court

A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court has ruled.

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Museum can keep $40 million Nazi-looted Pissarro painting - US court

A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court has ruled.

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