Kandinsky painting returned to heirs sold for £31.56m at London auction

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Wassily Kandinsky’s 1907 painting, Das bunte Leben, sold for £31.56 million at a Christie’s London auction on October 14, 2026, after being returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owners, Hedwig and Emanuel Albert Lewenstein, in 2023. The painting had been sold under disputed circumstances in 1940 following the German occupation of the Netherlands,…

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