“This work of art, which belonged to my adoptive parents, Yvonne and Raoul Meyer, was stolen from them by the Nazis during the occupation of France in 1941,” said Meyer, a Holocaust survivor, in a statement.
Her adoptive parents had fled Paris during the Nazi occupation and were forced to hide the artworks they had acquired — including the Pissarro, as well as a Picasso and Renoir — in a bank vault.
Give it back U, OK.
That was not right for that university to fight her over something that belonged to her. If she proved her case, then they are being greedy. Which they showed by using way more money than her to keep it
Does the University of Oklahoma really want to keep this item,contract signed or not? Stolen item, rightful owner pressured into signing contract. Remains a stolen item. Return it Oklahoma.
That’s just wrong.
UofOklahoma Fascist sympathizers.
Should be returned to her....it's hers not yours!
... and which she agreed to share with the University. It is not an injustice.
Shame On The University Of Oklahoma... Shame On America... It's Bad Enough That We Used Stolen Nazi's During, And After The War, But To STEAL! This Families Heirloom Is Just About As Un-American As It Gets... GIVE HER BACK WHATS HERS...
American universities are soulless, rapacious commercial enterprises who profit from slave labor. An untraceable, fluidly valuated asset like an old painting is precisely how borderline legal and illicit operations shift capital without paying taxes & alerting LE. We r the nazis
I’m surprised OU wants it. Okies’ idea of art is the cover of a football program.
I think Germany should pay the value of the painting to her. And all who had art stolen. Small pittance compared to the lives lost to the Nazis.
The University of Oklahoma should do the right thing and return this painting to the rightful owner. This shouldn't be a difficult decision. Any museums want to donate a piece in exchange for them making this right? mcuban I am sure you know someone who can help.
Returning stolen nazi art should be a nobrainer
I don’t get it. If I buy a car that turns out to be stolen, whether i knew it or not, I don’t get to keep the car. University of Oklahoma is subject to caveat emptor as much as anyone else is. I’m sure there’s more nuance to the story, there always is, but it seems like bullying
holding into blood money
Give it to her , assholes
Of course Oklahoma wants to hold on to a piece of art that only came to them because it got stolen by nazis. If they didn't know that originally it probably just made them want it even more once they found out.
Why didn’t they just give the thing back to her
Well that's crap, not their painting. Boooo Give it back
She give to the football program? Do it damn blinkinriley OU_Football
FYI -- there is an error in the article. It says the painting is worth an estimate $2 billion, which about a thousand times it's actual value (~$2 million).
It’s tainted goods in my opinion 🤷♂️. What tangible benefits does the University receive by keeping it?