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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.
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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...
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 seized from her parents during the occupation of Paris in World War II. After the war, the painti...