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On January 18, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, a decades-long litigation in which the plaintiff seeks to recover Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de pluie (1897). Although the parties agree that the painting changed hands as the result of a forced sale involving Nazi agents in 1939, th [...]
After nearly four and a half years of litigation, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Republic of Turkey’s ownership claim to an ancient marble idol owned by private collector Michael Steinhardt and that had been consigned to Christie’s auction house in New York. Although the Court recognized the 1906 Ottoman Decree as a valid patrimony law enforceabl [...]