California opens new chapter in the fight for Thyssen Museum’s Pissarro

The work hung over the room that Claude Cassirer used as an office. It was a reproduction of Rue Saint Honoré, Afternoon, Rain Effect (1897), the piece by the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro that has been at the heart of a bitter, two-decades-long legal dispute between the Cassirer family, the Spanish government and Madrid’s Thyssen Museum. “I had it made for my father. They framed it beautifully. Sometimes it causes confusion, because when people see it, they think they’ve returned the piece to us,” says David Cassirer, Claude’s son and great-grandson of Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, the original owner of the artwork. Claude died in 2010 and Lilly in 1962.

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