Kandinsky masterpiece sold for record £37.2m at auction in London

Sale comes after descendants of owners, one of whom was murdered by Nazis at Auschwitz, reunited with painting found in Dutch museum

A Wassily Kandinsky masterpiece that had been stolen by the Nazis, who killed its owner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, has been sold for a record £37.2m at auction in London.

The painting was sold at Sotheby’s on behalf of the great-grandchildren of the owner. They were recently reunited with the 1910 work - titled Murnau Mit Kirche II, (Murnau with Church II) – which had been discovered in a museum in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.