WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s tradition authorities stated Thursday a portray by Wassily Kandinsky that was auctioned in Germany for nearly 390,000 euros ($404,000) belongs to Poland, the place it was stolen in 1984.
The authorities are threatening authorized steps.
Kandinsky’s 1928 watercolor “Untitled” was sold Thursday on the Grisebach auctioneers in Berlin. The price ticket included the public sale payment.
Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, in addition to the Polish Embassy in Berlin, stated that they had notified the public sale home that the paintings was stolen from an exhibition on the National Museum in Warsaw. They stated that they had protested placing it up for the public sale.
“The German auction house has acted like a receiver of stolen goods,” Poland’s tradition minister, Piotr Glinski, stated on Twitter.
The summary composition on cardboard bears the Polish museum’s stamp on the reverse. The on-line public sale catalogue says it was Kandinsky’s birthday current to Otto Ralfs and was in Braunschweig till round 1940. It was on the National Museum round 1965-1983, in keeping with {the catalogue}, after which was in a non-public art assortment in the U.S. In 1988 it was acquired by a non-public individual from Galerie Thomas in Munich.
Kandinsky, who lived 1866-1944, was a Russian painter who’s credited with being among the many pioneers of summary art. In 1896-1914, he lived and studied in Munich.
Poland can also be actively looking for paintings that was looted by the Nazi German troops after they occupied Poland throughout World War II.
During the public sale at Grisebach on Thursday, Germany’s file worth for an art piece seems to have been paid. A self-portrait by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann painted throughout World War II sold for 20 million euros ($20.7 million) earlier than payment.
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This story has been corrected to point out that the Kandinsky portray was in Warsaw’s museum round 1965-1983.
Poland says Kandinsky art sold in Germany comes from theft
Poland says Kandinsky art sold in Germany comes from theft
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Poland says Kandinsky art sold in Germany comes from theft