{
  "id": 16800094,
  "title": "Looted by Nazis and Recently Restituted, a Kaleidoscopic Kandinsky Painting Just Sold for Nearly $42 Million",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/looted-by-nazis-and-recently-restituted-a-kaleidoscopic-kandinsky",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T20:49:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/looted-by-nazi-and-recently-restituted-a-kaleidoscopic-kandinsky-painting-just-sold-for-nearly-42-million-180989763/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "\"Das bunte Leben,\" the Russian artist's dreamlike panorama, bridges folklore and early modernism. The sale follows a 2023 ruling concluding that the work was seized from its rightful Dutch Jewish owners",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}