For Fox Sake! Impressionist Painting Saved From Nazis To Be Sold At Auction For $47 Million

German expressionist painter and printmaker Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc in 1910. (Public Domain)

A Franz Marc painting smuggled out of Germany in 1939 to avoid having it destroyed by the Nazis is to be auctioned by Christie’s in London and is expected to fetch about $47 million.

The oil painting, named “The Foxes,” will be the centerpiece of Christie’s “20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale” on March 1.