Court cancels sale of Pissarro landscape at London auction after restitution dispute

A court in France has ‘cancelled’ the sale of a Camille Pissarro landscape that appeared in a London auction and ordered its return to the heirs of a Jewish banker whose art collection was looted in Nazi-occupied Paris.

Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne, Dieppe, après-midi ensoleillée, an oil on canvas from 1902, sold…

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