Leading British Stalinist cashes in

In the last few months, unbeknown to friends and colleagues, Ms Halpin [chair of the Communist Party of Britain]. . . inherited one of the most important expressionist German paintings. Yesterday, it was sold for £20.5m.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Berlin Street Scene, a vivid vision of the claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing ebb and flow of urban life in 1913, was bought . . . by art consultant Daniella Luxembourg on behalf of the Neue Galerie, New York.

Posted by David on November 9, 2006 8:31 PM