Kandinsky painting discovered by heirs of Holocaust victims sets auction record
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A painting by Russian modernist Wassily Kandinsky, once owned by victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold at Sotheby’s in London for £37.2m ($44.55m).
This became a new auction record for the artist.
The previous world record for Kandinsky’s work was set in 2016 when his painting “Rigide et Courbé” sold for $23.3 million at Christie’s in New York.
“Kandinsky’s Murnau period defined abstract art for future generations” says in a statement by Helena Newman, Sotheby’s European Chair and Head of Impressionism and Contemporary Art.
Kandinsky was living with his lover Gabriele Münter and artist friends in Murnau, Bavaria, when he painted “Murnau with Kirche II”, inspired by the local scenery while cycling. Munter herself made the inscription on the stretcher of the picture.
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