Heirs Sue Over Ownership of a Pissarro, Saying It Was Seized by Nazis
They claim that the painting, “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre,” was taken from their ancestors by the Nazis, and have filed a lawsuit in Atlanta to recover it.
A family claims that Pissarro’s “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre” was taken from their ancestors by the Nazis and auctioned off in 1935. They have filed a lawsuit in Atlanta to recover it.Credit.Lefevre Fine Art Ltd./Bridgeman Images
May 13, 2021
More than a dozen heirs of a Jewish couple who left Germany as Hitler rose to power have filed a lawsuit in Georgia seeking to recover a Pissarro painting said to have been part of an extensive collection of works seized by Nazis.