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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 years ago, sharing the Pissarro with a US university to whom it had been donated, overrode a 1945 French law requiring the restitution of Nazi looted artworks to their rightful owners. ....
Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 03.50 EST A French woman is being threatened with multi-million-dollar fines by a US court if she continues a legal battle to retrieve a Pissarro painting the Nazis stole from her adoptive father. The legal tussle over La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep), completed by Camille Pissarro in 1886 and worth an estimated €1.5m (£1.3m), is between Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, a former president of the Galeries Lafayette department store, and Oklahoma University’s Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, which was gifted the painting by a local family. It is currently hanging in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay but is due to return to Oklahoma later this year under an agreement to share the work, which Meyer is contesting. ....