A painting by the pioneering Russian-born modernist Wassily Kandinsky sold for 37.2 million pounds, or about $45 million, at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening during a marquee week of ...

The German bank acquired “Colorful Life” from the widow of the collector who had bought it at the 1940 auction. It was purchased at the request of the city of Munich and the Lenbachhaus museum.

A Landmark Kandinsky With a Troubled Past Is in the Spotlight, Again. The abstract work was looted by the Nazis, displayed in a Dutch museum and finally returned to its owners.

Kandinsky died that same year, three days before his 78th birthday. His wife, who was about three decades younger, outlived Kandinsky by 36 years, and was the primary custodian of his collection.

A state-owned bank in Bavaria announced on Monday that it would return a masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that has hung in a German museum since 1972 to the descendants of a Jewish family that ...

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. Part of the auction ...

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.

Museum Barberini in Berlin is presenting 'Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometrical Abstraction in the 20th Century', a major exhibition celebrating the visionary artist’s groundbreaking work.

In September 2022, the Wassily Kandinsky painting "View of Murnau with Church" was returned to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust.

In 2018, the Commission ruled that Kandinsky’s Painting with Houses (1909) should remain in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam due to its “significant place” in the museum collection since 1940.

Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain ‘View of Murnau with Church ...

Members of staff hold the painting ” Murnau with Church II” by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1910 is on display during a media preview of Sotheby’s auction, in London on Feb. 22, 2023.