The U.S. Supreme Court this week revived a lawsuit about a valuable French impressionist painting confiscated by the Nazis from a Jewish woman whose American descendant wishes to reclaim it.
The issue was whether “Saint-Honoré Street, Afternoon, Rain Effect,” an 1897 oil painting by Camille Pissarro, should stay in the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, Spain, or pass to the woman’s great-grandson. The foundation that operates the museum is an agency of the Spanish government.
California, where the lawsuit originated, enacted a law last year that makes it easier for Holocaust survivors and their descendants to take back stolen art….