University of Oklahoma fights claim to a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting (Q78012009)
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| English | University of Oklahoma fights claim to a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting |
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University of Oklahoma fights claim to a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting (English)
15 March 2015
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The University of Oklahoma is hoping to retain a Camille Pissarro painting it has held in its campus art museum for more than a decade in the wake of claims by a French-Jewish family that the work had been stolen by Nazis in 1941. The university, which is pinning its defense partly on a 1956 ruling by a Swiss court, seemed to have prevailed last year when a federal judge in New York City dismissed a lawsuit by the former owner’s daughter. But a federal appeals court has revived Leone Meyer’s claim at least for the time being, ordering the judge who dimissed the case to deliberate further.The immediate legal issue stems from a decision by Meyer, a Frenchwoman living in Paris, to sue in New York on the grounds that the university had ongoing business dealings there, instead of turning to a federal court in Oklahoma. (English)
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The University of Oklahoma received Pissarro’s “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” as part of a 2000 bequest of more than 30 paintings from Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer, an American family that had made a fortune in the oil business -- and for whom the university’s Weitzenhoffer School of Fine Arts is named.According to court documents, the Weitzenhoffers had bought the painting from a New York art dealer in 1956, not long after the Swiss court had rejected the claim by Meyer’s father (English)