A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million). “Murnau mit Kirche II“ (“Murnau with Church II“) set a record price for the Russian artist in a sale at Sotheby’s in London on…
A Kandinsky painting called "Murnau with Church II“ sold for $44.9 million in London. The painting has been at a Dutch museum for decades after the owner was killed in the Holocaust.
LONDON (AP) A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million).
LONDON — A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for $44.9 million. “Murnau mit Kirche II” (“Murnau with Church II”) set a record price for the Russian artist in a sale at