French woman in legal battle to retrieve Nazi-looted Pissarro painting
by Kim Willsher in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5DXG4)
US court is threatening Leone-Noelle Meyer, 81, with $3.5m fine if she does not halt proceedings
A French woman is being threatened with multi-million-dollar fines by a US court if she continues a legal battle to retrieve a Pissarro painting the Nazis stole from her adoptive father.
The legal tussle over La Bergere Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep), completed by Camille Pissarro in 1886 and worth an estimated 1.5m (1.3m), is between Leone-Noelle Meyer, 81, a former president of the Galeries Lafayette department store, and Oklahoma University's Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, which was gifted the painting by a local family.
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