The University of Oklahoma’s possession of the painting “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” (“Bergère rentrant des moutons,” 1886) by Camille Pissarro will be the topic of discussion in a meeting of the Oklahoma House Government Modernization and Accountability Committee from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday in Room 108 of the Capitol.
Speakers attending will be Pierre Ciric, a New York attorney representing Léone Meyer, who has asserted a claim as the rightful owner of the painting; her son Raphael Meyer; and Marc Masurovsky, a historian, researcher, and co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP), a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group dedicated to documenting and researching losses of cultural and artistic objects during World War II and the Holocaust.
The meeting is a follow-up to a previous meeting attended by representatives and legal staff from the university. It is intended to help clarify the rightful owner of the painting as the university has been unable to provide the Provenance Reports previously discussed by the committee.
