Kandinsky masterpiece sells for £10m in London

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Painting, sold for record value, belonged to a German Jewish family murdered by the Nazis. Artwork ‘Murnau mi Kirche II’ by Kandinsky goes up for auction Justin Tallis/AFP Kandinsky’s masterpiece, “Murnau Mit Kirche II”, which belonged to a German Jewwoman murdered by the Nazis and was recovered last year by her heirs, was sold for a record US$ 45 million (about 233 million reais) this Wednesday (1st), according to Sotheby’s auction house. In 1910, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky depicted the German town of Murnau, with its steep roofs and church spire, surrounded by the peaks of the Bavarian Alps. For a long time, the work, measuring approximately 1×1 meter, was in the dining room of Johanna Margarete and Siegbert Stern, founders of a thriving textile company. The Jewish couple was immersed in Berlin’s cultural life in the 1920s and rubbed shoulders with personalities such as writers Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka and physicist Albert Einstein. Portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Warhol to be auctioned with an estimated price of R$ 1 billion Stern died of natural causes in 1935, but his wife, Margarete, died in the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. About ten years ago, the painting was identified in a museum in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, where it has remained since 1951. Last year, it was returned to Stern’s heirs, who will share the profits. “The restitution of this painting that meant so much to our great-grandparents has enormous meaning for us, because it is a recognition and partially closes a wound that has been open over generations”, they underlined. On the same day, the painting “Dance on the Beach” (1906), by Edvard Munch, was sold for US$ 20 million (R$ 103 million). The work was kept safe from the Nazis in a barn in a Norwegian forest and was the subject of a restitution agreement. Pop Week explains who the activists who attack famous paintings are and what they want

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