Toyen’s previous record in the domestic auction was the painting Dusk in the rainforest. In 2017, the buyer paid 36 million crowns for it, including a surcharge.
She also sold other works by important Czech artists for millions at the Sunday auction in Prague’s Mánes. For about 8.35 million crowns, he got a new owner of the painting Winter flower from the master of chiaroscuro and light Jakub Schikaneder. “This is an extremely charming work, where the painter was inspired by Japanese decorative art,” describes the auction hall. The starting price of the work from 1887, which had been missing for a long time, was 2.7 million crowns.
For the oil of Josef Čapek Children in the grass the buyer gave 7.9 million crowns. The work belongs to the so-called children’s period in the painter’s work from the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. “This is Čapek’s most expensive painting with a motif of children playing,” said Aneta Kopecká from the organizing auction hall.
The painter Pravoslav Kotík has a new record for the author after Sunday’s auction. His oil from 1946 called Recreation went to auction with a price of 850 thousand crowns, to finally find a new owner for 3.35 million. The work of the Croatian painter Vlaho Bukovac was auctioned for the highest price in the Czech Republic. The painting with the motif of a girl in an orange scarf sold for almost three million crowns.
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