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A French heiress gave up an estimated $1.8 million painting that was stolen by the Nazis after a ten-year legal battle, according to The Guardian.

A painting plundered by Nazi soldiers will be coming to Norman this summer. The journey back to Oklahoma has been a winding and controversial one.

Last modified on Tue 1 Jun 2021 14.24 EDT A French heiress has been forced to give up her battle to recover a Pissarro painting the Nazis looted from her adoptive parents. Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, announced on Tuesday she had been left with “no choice” but to drop legal action to retrieve La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) after she was threatened with large fines if she continued. Last month a Paris court ruled that a contested contract Meyer signed five year...

A French heiress who spent years trying to win back a priceless impressionist painting that was stolen by the Nazis on Tuesday renounced her claim to the work to end a feud with an American university. Leone Meyer, 81, spent nearly a decade trying to secure ownership of Pissarros 1886 La Bergere r ..

Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep by Camille Pissarro, born on the island of St. Thomas. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons) PARIS — A French heiress who spent years trying to win back a priceless impressionist painting that was stolen by the Nazis on Tuesday renounced her claim to the work to end a feud with an American university. Leone Meyer, 81, spent nearly a decade trying to secure ownership of Pissarro’s 1886 “La Bergere rentrant des moutons” (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep), which was...

Léone Meyer, a Holocaust survivor whose parents' Camille Pissarro was looted by Nazis, has given up in her quest for the work's restitution.

Léone Meyer in 2015. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images. During the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazis stole the French Impressionist painting from the bank where the Meyer family was storing it when they fled the country. Meyer’s biological family was killed at Auschwitz, but the now 81-year-old was adopted by Holocaust survivor Raoul Meyer, who attempted to recover his looted collection. Unfortunately, the theft occurred in 1941, and by the time he found the...

Editor’s note: The Daily’s interview with Léone Meyer was conducted in French, with the assistance of OU French Professor Peyton Vann. All quotes from Meyer and her attorney were translated from the French transcript of the interview unless stated otherwise.   Holocaust survivor and French businesswoman Léone Meyer spoke in French for the duration of her hour-long interview with The Daily.  Separated by seven hours and over 4,000 miles, OU French professor Peyton Vann tran...

Article content 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, ...

BBC News By Lucy Williamson image captionParis under occupation: Nazi Germany controlled the French capital from June 1940 Eighty years ago, Nazi officers entered a local bank in a sleepy corner of south-west France, and raided a safe deposit box there. Hidden inside, they found a stack of artworks, including a painting by Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, showing a shepherdess bathed in warm light greeting her flock. image copyrightPatrice Schmidt/Musée dOrsay The painting had been hidde...