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OK HR1042
Resolution
Status
2/17/2014
Primary Sponsor
Mike Reynolds
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AI Summary
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Directs the University of Oklahoma to immediately return the 1886 Camille Pissarro painting "Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep" to Leone Meyer, daughter of original owner Raoul Meyer, at no cost to her
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The painting was stolen by Nazi troops from Jewish businessman Raoul Meyer's collection in Paris after the 1940 German occupation of France
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The artwork was purchased in good faith by Oklahoma oilman Aaron Weitzenhoffer and his wife Clara in 1956 from a New York gallery, and was bequeathed to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at OU when Clara died in 2000
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Raoul Meyer's 1953 lawsuit against a Swiss art dealer to recover the painting was dismissed by a Swiss judge on procedural grounds
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Requires distribution of the resolution to OU President David Boren and each member of the OU Board of Regents
Legislative Description
Resolution directing the University of Oklahoma to return a painting that was stolen by the Nazis during World War II to the family of Raoul Meyer; distribution.
General Legislation
Last Action
Authored by Representative Reynolds, Ritze, Wesselhoft, Bennett
2/17/2014