"Spanish Museum Retains Nazi-Looted Painting Despite Heirs' Claims"

Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum welcomed a U.S. court decision allowing it to keep a French impressionist painting looted from a Jewish woman by the Nazis, which the museum said it had bought decades later in a transparent way. The decision concerned one of the oldest Nazi art theft cases, involving Camille Pissarro's "Rue Saint Honore, Afternoon, Rain Effect". The California appeals court ruled in favor of Spain's interest in providing "certainty of title" to its museums, outweighing California's interest in deterring theft and obtaining recoveries for victims of stolen art who live there.