Collector appeals for return of Pissarro painting restituted through a 1945 order made by the Allies
"This may raise many important Holocaust issues for the French market," Christie’s says La Cueillere des Pois (1887) by Camille Pissarro Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. “I don’t understand why I’m here,” said Bruce Toll, the American collector of Impressionist art, in a Paris court on 6 June. The real estate entrepreneur was asking a court of appeal to give him back The Pea Harvest (1887), by Camille Pissarro, seized last year while on loan to an exhibition at the Musée