An 1886 Impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro entitled “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” became a tug-of-war between the University of Oklahoma and a French Holocaust survivor who claimed it was stolen
On the last day before the Passover observance began in Israel, David Nekrutman sent an email to his supporters around the world. Nekrutman is an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish theologian. Among
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Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro’s tiny
La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) has for years been the subject of a three-way tug of war between a museum in France, a university in Oklahoma and the daughter of its original Jewish owners.
When they fled France during the Second World War, wealthy Parisians Raoul and Yvonne Meyer entrusted their art to their bank, but in 1941 Nazi officers managed to loot the lot. Upon returning to Europe in 1945, Raoul was able to recover much of his vast collection, Artnet.com says. However, by the time he tracked down