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The US high court revives a case around Nazi-looted impressionist painting in Spanish museum
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FILE - A visitor views the Impressionist painting called "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie" (“Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain") painted in 1897 by Camille Pissarro, on display in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum May 12, 2005, in Madrid. - photo by AP Photo/Mariana Eliano, File
MADRID (AP) — The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once again after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived a case that could decide its ownership. At issue is whether the painting, Camille Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain,” should remain in the hands of a prominent Spanish museum where it now hangs — or with the descendants of the woman. On Monday, the Supreme Court said the case should be reconsidered under a California law passed last year that aims to strengthen the claims of Holocaust survivors and their families seeking to recover stolen art.