French heiress Léone-Noëlle Meyer announced on Tuesday that she has given up her fight to reclaim a work by famed Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro that had been stolen by Nazis and was discovered to be in the
An American university has won its fight with a French heiress to keep a Camille Pissarro painting stolen from her family by the Nazis. Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, says she has ended her struggle with the University of Oklahoma after being threatened with heavy fines if she continued her legal battle. Ms Meyer, a holocaust survivor, had fought for years to recover Pissarro’s La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons but admitted she was left with “no other.