French court orders American couple to return Nazi looted Pissarro painting to Jewish heirs

Camille Pissarro’s ‘Picking Peas’ is at the centre of a court battle in France between its current owner and descendants of the Jewish owner who was forced to part with it by the Nazis during the Second World War.

Earlier this week a French court ruled that it belonged to the descendants of Simon Bauer, an art co…

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