The starting price of the painting was 9.5 million crowns. The work became the author’s second most expensive painting. A few days ago, at another auction, Zrzavý, the painting Fantastic Landscape, was sold for the price of 28.08 million crowns, including the auction surcharge.
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According to the organizers, the architect Josef Gočár achieved his author’s auction record. His Cubist showcase with clocks from 1913 to 1914 was raised for 750 thousand crowns and auctioned for 1.98 million crowns, including an auction surcharge. Jiří Kolář Collage A tribute to Kupka was auctioned for 607,600 crowns, including an auction surcharge.
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The reddish bulky tempera on plywood from the late 1940s, called the Queen of the Seas, was originally called the Golden Beauty, and the ship in the foreground was to be covered with gold leaf. Eventually, he replaced the red gold with a bright orange color. While in the 1920s and 1930s Zrzavý painted boats and barges moored in the harbor, in the 1940s he began depicting them hauled to the beach with giant boulders nearby. The most expensive painting with this theme is a related painting by Bárka on the Coast, which was sold at the Kodl Gallery auction for 9.6 million crowns four years ago.
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An important figure of the Czech avant-garde
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator and set designer Jan Zrzavý is an important figure in Czech fine art and a representative of the avant-garde emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.
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A new domestic auction record on November 29 was a painting by František Kupka called Divertimento II., Which was sold at an auction in Prague for 75.2 million crowns. Including the auction surcharge, the buyer will pay 90.24 million crowns for it. The painting thus became Kupka’s most expensive work. The starting price of the painting, which according to the auction hall belongs to one of the most important works of its abstract period of the 1930s, was 30 million crowns.
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