Court Will Review Whether Spain Can Be Sued Over Art Nazis Took
- January 03, 2010 14:54
A ruling that Spain can be sued in the U.S. by a California man seeking to recover a Pissarro painting stolen by the Nazis from his grandmother will be reconsidered, a federal appeals court in San Francisco said. Claude Cassirer sued Spain and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation four years ago to recover the painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro. When his grandmother fled Germany in 1939, she was forced to surrender the painting...