Pissarro s Rue Saint Honore, apres midi, effet de pluie ( Rue Saint Honore, Afternoon, Rain Effect ), depicting a Paris street scene, was stolen in 1939 from Lilly Neubauer, who was forced to sell it for 900 Reichsmarks ($360) to obtain a visa and flee Nazi Germany. She was never paid.
Federal judges ruled Spanish law took precedent over California law in case involving painting worth some $30 million sought by family of its original owners
The painting, now estimated to be worth more than $30 million, was traded in 1939 by a Jewish woman to a Nazi art appraiser for a small amount of cash and visas.