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Pierre Ciric, an attorney representing Leone Meyer, speaks during a House committee meeting at the state Capitol to discuss the University of Oklahoma’s possession of the painting “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” (“Bergère rentrant des moutons,” 1886) by Camille Pissarro, in Oklahoma City, Monday, May 12, 2014. Meyer has sued the University of Oklahoma in an attempt to retrieve the painting, which was among more than 30 pieces of artwork donated to the university by Clara Weitzenhoffer when she died in 2000. (AP Photo)

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In a Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 photo, a visitor to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., takes a photograph of a piece called “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” by French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro at the museum. For more than a decade, the University of Oklahoma has exhibited “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep,” bequeathed to it by the wife of an oil tycoon. But renewed claims by a family that owned the oil painting before World War II has drawn the school’s fundraising arm into a fight it thought was settled in Switzerland more than 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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