One painting , '' Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon , Effect of Rain '' by Camille Pissarro , belonged to a Jewish woman , Lilly Cassirer who was compelled by a Nazi official to exchange it under duress for an exit visa to escape Nazi Germany shortly after Kristallnacht in 1939 . By 2015 , her descendants had filed a lawsuit against the museum , on the grounds that it was looted by the Nazis . On May 1st 2019 , a California judge determined that the museum held the right to keep the painting , despite international agreements to the contrary . In 2011 due to " a lack of liquid funds " , Cervera decided to sell '' The Lock '' by the English artist John Constable . The painting , which belonged to her private collection , was sold in London the following year for £ 22.4 million , more than doubling the price paid for it in 1990
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum