A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London.

Kandinsky lived in Munich for much of his early career: The Lenbachhaus, with more than 90 Kandinsky oil paintings, has one of the most important collections of his art worldwide.

The painting when it hung in the Stedelijk. Photo: S Boztas. A painting by Wassily Kandinsky which was returned by city of Amsterdam to the heirs of its original Jewish owners last year has been sold ...

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.

Law & Politics A Kandinsky Painting Sold During World War II Should Be Returned to the Heirs of Its Jewish Owners, an Advisory Panel Ruled. Once owned by a Dutch couple, the painting was auctioned ...

As Abstract Pioneer Wassily Kandinsky Was Breaking Down Barriers in Painting, He Was Also Writing Experimental Poetry. Read It Here Read four poems from Kandinsky's 1912 collection "Sounds," newly ...

In 1937, the Nazis seized the entire collection, including the Kandinsky painting, as part of the Nazi "degenerate art" campaign. In the wake of her husband's death in 1944 and under pressure from the ...

A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London.