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Short of space, the Guggenheim sold a Kandinsky for $62,000. It may fetch $80 million at auction

Short of space, the Guggenheim sold a Kandinsky for $62,000. It may fetch $80 million at auction
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By Oscar Holland, CNN Some 15 years after Solomon R. Guggenheim died, the foundation managing his extensive art collection concluded that it owned more Wassily Kandinsky paintings than it knew what to do with. The late American businessman had been among the Russian painter’s most prominent and d...

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