Christie’s London Offers a Restituted Kandinsky, Long Displayed in a German Museum, for $30 M.

A Wassily Kandinsky painting left behind by a Dutch family fleeing the Nazi occupation and later on view for decades in a German museum will come to the auction block at Christie’s London on October 14, during Frieze week. Estimated in excess of $30 million, Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life, 1907) was restituted to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in 2023 after a six-year legal battle. Measuring just over four feet high and five feet wide, it was Kandinsky’s largest ca