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The 60+ Year Journey of a Stolen Pissarro Painting and Who Gets to Keep It
The 60+ Year Journey of a Stolen Pissarro Painting and Who Gets to Keep It
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Length:
67 minutes
Released:
Dec 13, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Steve and Katie speak with appellate litigator David Barrett about the story animating a recent Supreme Court case between the heirs of Lilly Cassirer, who fled Germany in 1939 after surrendering the painting Rue Saint-Honoré Après-midi, Effet de Pluie (Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain) by Camille Pissarro to the Nazis, and the Spanish Museum known as the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. They discuss the journey of the painting in and out of the United States over a 60-plus-year period before it found its way into the collection of a Spanish museum, the Cassirer family’s efforts to find and reclaim the painting, and the decades-long litigation in California that led to the recent Supreme Court decision overturning a decision of the 9th Circuit applying the Spanish law of adverse possession in favor of the Spanish Museum.
Released:
Dec 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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