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Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches M
Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45M,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). “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 Wednesday evening.

Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45M

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). “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 Wednesday evening.