Pissarro

[ pi-sahr-oh; French pee-sa-roh ]

noun

1. Ca·mille [k, a, -, mee, -y, uh], 1830–1903, French painter.

Pissarro

/ pɪˈsɑːrəʊ; pisaro /

noun

1. PissarroCamille18301903MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Camille (kamij). 1830–1903, French impressionist painter, esp of landscapes

Example Sentences

That ruling found that the painting — “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain” by Camille Pissarro — was lawfully owned by a Spanish museum and need not be returned to the American descendants of Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, who surrendered the masterpiece to the Nazis for a visa to flee Germany in 1939.

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Assembly Bill 2867 makes clear that California law requires that Nazi looted artworks such as the Pissarro — as well as other valuables stolen during past or future acts of genocide or political persecution — be returned to their rightful owners.

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Thaddeus Stauber, an attorney for the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Madrid museum that holds the Pissarro, said late Monday that he could not immediately comment.

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A federal court Tuesday rejected a Jewish family’s decades-long legal fight for a famous Pissarro painting that was taken from them by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II and is currently at a museum in Spain.

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The long court battle has substantially raised the profile — and likely the value — of the Pissarro painting itself and could set precedent useful for other families seeking the return of looted art.

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