[MSN] Museum wants stolen Pissarro returned

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Museum wants stolen Pissarro returned
Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:08am AEDT

A French museum hopes to get back a painting by Impressionist painter Pissarro. The work was stolen in 1981, but has now been found in New York.

Andre Liatard, curator of the Faure museum in the Alpine town of Aix-les-Bains, says he will travel to New York later this month to take part in legal proceedings to wrest the stolen work from its current owner. The painting is in the care of Sharyl Davis, who says she bought the work titled Le Marche Aux Poissons (The Fish Market) in good faith and now wants to be compensated if it is returned to France. According to investigators who traced how the painting ended up in the United States, Ms Davis bought the work from a US dealer for $US8,500 ($9,100), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was seen as a major influence on French painters Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.

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