A 14-year legal battle over ownership of a painting looted by Nazis has come to an end. A judge in California has ruled the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, which has had Pissarro's "Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon" since 1993, is the legal owner. Nazis took the painting from it's Jewish owner in 1939 in exchange for letting her flee Germany just before the war.
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