The Supreme Court on Thursday kept alive a California man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.
The question in the case was not directly about whether San Diego resident David Cassirer can get back the streetscape by French impressionist Camille Pissarro. Instead, the question was how to determine whose property laws — Spain's or California's — ultimately apply to resolving the dispute over “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain." The painting of a Paris street with horse-drawn carriages and a fountain is now worth tens of millions of dollars.
