The current domestic auction record belonged to the painting The Queen of Spades by the painter Toyen, which was sold in October this year for 78.65 million crowns, including an auction surcharge.
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František Kupka’s abstract paintings have long occupied the first places in the Czech auction rankings. After today, he has four in the top ten, three places in the top ten belong to Oskar Kokoschko and two places to Toyen.
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Today’s auction of the Kodl Gallery in Prague’s Žofín offers up to 250 works of art. Due to the valid measures against coronavirus, it is auctioned mainly via internet platforms, there are only six bidders in the hall, and it is also auctioned over the phone. So far, the vast majority of about half of the works on offer have found a buyer. Kupka’s painting found a new owner after quick bids, the auction lasted several minutes.
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The title of Kupka’s painting Divertimento is associated with Italian musical terminology and refers to a light or entertaining instrumental composition. The music, of which Kupka was a great admirer, was copied into the painter’s work from the earliest works, and later it was repeatedly transformed into games of lines and shapes under his hands.
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The painting is connected with Divertiment I, which is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and with a pair of Hot Jazz paintings (I and II, 1935), to which both Divertiments follow.
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