A Kandinsky masterpiece stolen by the Nazis in 1940 was returned to the heirs of its Jewish owners in 2023; the 1907 painting has now sold at auction for nearly $42 million

A 1907 masterpiece by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, looted from a Dutch-Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, sold at a London auction earlier this week for £31.56…

In 2008, a woman bought a glass vase for £1 at a Scottish car-boot sale and used it as a plant pot; after experts identified it as a 1929 René Lalique piece, Christie’s sold it for £32,450

Photo credit: www.collectissim.com In 2008, a woman bought a glass vase for just £1 at a car-boot sale in Dumfries, Scotland, because she liked how it looked. She used it…