Legislation could send long-running ownership dispute over Pissarro painting at Spanish museum back to the courts, as heirs of survivor battle for its return

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the heirs of a Jewish collector have battled for decades over a work sold under duress during the Nazi regime.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law to reunite a Jewish family with an Impressionist painting looted by Nazis. The law was designed to reverse a recent court ruling.

The law, signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, aims to resolve a Jewish family’s decades-long fight to recover a famous impressionist painting forcibly sold to Nazis during the Holocaust.

A series of federal court decisions have found that a museum in Spain can keep its impressionist painting stolen from a Jewish family at the beginning of World War II.

California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Legislation to Help Holocaust Survivors Recover Art Stolen by the Nazis

For Holocaust survivors and their families, the fight to reclaim art and other personal items stolen by the Nazis continues to reopen traumatic wounds,” Newsom said.