Beverly and Claude Cassirer, both now deceased, are pictured with a replication of a famous Camille Pissarro painting that was stolen from their family by the Nazis in the 1930s. The Cassirer family had considered the painting lost until Claude Cassirer — Lilly's grandson and David's father, who has since died — discovered in 2000 that it was part of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The family filed its lawsuit seeking the painting's return in a federal court in Los Angeles in 2005. (Cassirer Family Trust)Lawyers for the museum have not argued that the Pissarro wasn't stolen from the Cassirers by the Nazis. In its unanimous order Tuesday, the court's three-judge panel found that, even under California law, the painting should remain with the museum.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 10, 2024 11:54 UTC