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.

From Los Angeles Times

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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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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“Looting art and other assets from Jewish families was an essential part of Hitler’s plan to annihilate the Jewish people, and eradicate all traces of Jewish life and culture. Spain’s insistence on keeping the Cassirers’ Pissarro perpetuates the crimes of the Nazi regime, and demeans the memory of six million Jewish souls,” Schaecter said.

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