More than £170 million was spent as London’s auction season got into full swing with a series of major works going under the hammer at Sotheby’s, including two paintings restituted to their original owners after they were lost during the Nazis’ rise to power.
The first of the two masterpieces, Wassily Kandinsky’s 1910 Murnau mit Kirche II, sold for a record £37.2 million.
