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Amsterdam to Return Kandinsky Work to Pre-war Owners' Heirs

“Painting with Houses” by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky on display in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

“Painting with Houses” by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky on display in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

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The Hague, Netherlands (AP) -- Amsterdam says it will return a valuable painting by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned it, ending years of legal wrangling over the work that was sold at auction in 1940.

“This is a historic injustice that is being put right,” Simon van der Sluijs, a lawyer who has represented the heirs, said Friday.