Californian Man Pissarro'd Off
May 11, 2005

Disturbing the past: 84-year-old Claude Cassirer of San Diego has filed a lawsuit to recover the above strokes of genius by Camille Pissarro, "Rue Saint-Honore, Afternoon, Rain Effect", claiming that it was taken from his family by the Nazis. It now hangs in Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. A fine painting, which fills me with nostalgia for the good old days when it used to rain.





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