Art dealer Robert Landau bought the painting at auction from Sotheby's last year for about $45 million, the most expensive Kandinsky ever sold.A rare early work by Vincent van Gogh and a record-selling masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky will be up for sale when one of the world’s largest art fairs opens its doors this weekend.
M.S. Rau’s president Bill Rau told AFP the asking price for the painting which goes on sale on Thursday was 4.5 million euros . A colourful vision of the German village of Murnau with its church spire stretched like the peaks of the Bavarian Alps, heralded the Russian master’s move towards abstraction.