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Kandinsky masterpiece sells for record $45 million

The 1910 Kandinsky painting heralded the Russian master’s move towards abstraction

LONDON – Wassily Kandinsky’s masterpiece “Murnau Mit Kirche II”, recently recovered by the descendants of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $45 million on Wednesday, a record for the artist according to auctioneers Sotheby’s.

The 1910 painting, a colourful vision of the German village of Murnau with its church spire stretched like the peaks of the Bavarian Alps, heralded the Russian master’s move towards abstraction.

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