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 masterpiece by Kandinsky, "Murnau Mit Kirche II," recently recovered by the heirs of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $44.5 million Wednesday in London, a new auction record ...

An early abstract masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that was recently restituted to the descendants of its original owners, Johanna Margarete Stern and Siegbert Samuel Stern, will be offered at ...

By Catherine Hickley The German government’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has recommended a vibrant tempera painting by Wassily Kandinsky be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who ...

By Catherine Hickley 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 ...

A German auction house halted its sale of an untitled 1928 painting by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky on Friday after Polish authorities vowed legal action, stating that the painting had ...

By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam Murnau, a village in the Bavarian Alps, is often recognized as the place where Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction. While living there with his ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music.