Michelle Young
By Michelle Young
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Culture His family was forced to sell their precious Pissarro painting before fleeing Nazi Germany; will he finally see justice?
Lilly Cassirer's last living heir awaits a legal ruling on a Camille Pissarro masterpiece
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Opinion Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
For Hitler, making Germany great again was synonymous with censoring broad swaths of German culture
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Culture The Nazis looted more than 500 of their paintings; a Jewish collector’s heirs still seek justice and restitution
On Sunday, Pauline Baer de Perignon stood in front of the Marquise de Parbére for the last time. The painting of the Marquise, the mistress of Philippe II the duc d’Orleans, by Nicholas Largilliere is on exhibition at Sotheby’s New York in advance of an auction this Thursday. It is in New York City thanks…
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Culture In Nazi-looted art case at Supreme Court, one (brief) moment of levity
Despite being mired in legalese, the oral argument at the Supreme Court for the case Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation regarding the Nazi-looted Camille Pissarro painting had one moment of levity. About an hour in, Justice Stephen Breyer asked, “Can everyone agree that this is a beautiful painting?” It was the first direct mention of…
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Art For decades, a Jewish family has sought the return of their beloved painting — can the Supreme Court make that happen?
Twenty-two years ago, photographer Claude Cassirer received a call he never expected. His family’s long-lost Nazi-looted painting by the French-Jewish painter Camille Pissarro had been found. It was hanging in a Spanish museum. The painting, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie” depicts the grand avenues of modern Paris glistening during an afternoon rain. It…
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