A
French impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during World War Two has been
restored to the Jewish family that once owned it.
A
Paris court ordered the American couple to return a valuable Camille Pissarro
painting to the descendants of Simon Bauer, an art collector.
Picking
Peas was painted in 1887 by Camille Pissarro.
In
1943, it was confiscated under anti-Semitic laws passed by the collaborationist
Vichy government during the German occupation of France.
Bauer,
survived the war, but only because a strike by railwaymen stopped a train
taking him to a concentration camp.
Lost
to the family, Picking Peas was bought for $800,000 (€690,000) at auction in
New York in 1995 by Bruce and Robbi Toll.
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