Autumn auction

EVENING SALE PRAGUE
Sunday November 10, 2024 at 4 PM in Expo 58 ART EXHIBITION HALL
(Letenske sady 1500/80, Prague 7, Czech Republic)

PRE-EXHIBITION EXHIBITION:
(Letenské sady 1500/80, 170 00 Prague 7)
OCTOBER 9- NOVEMBER 9, 2024: 10 AM-6 PM
10 NOVEMBER 2024: 10 AM-3:30 PM
(OPEN INCLUDING SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS)

The auction of contemporary and modern art, organized by the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery in Prague, will once again offer several masterpieces. Only 86 carefully selected, first-class works of art will appear in the auction.

One of the most important lots in the autumn auction is a large-format canvas of extraordinary quality by Zdenek Sykora, entitled Line No. 226, which will appear at the auction with a starting price of EUR 380 000. Zdenek Sykora, one of the most distinctive and original personalities of European art of the second half of the twentieth century, a world pioneer in the use of the computer as an auxiliary tool in composing artworks, created line paintings from the mid-1970s. These works are among the most important of his internationally acclaimed oeuvre, which is highly sought after by collectors.

Three representative oils by the Czech-French painter Josef Sima were successfully acquired for the auction. Josef Sima's top work, Lumiére froide, from 1969, goes to auction with a starting price of EUR 260 000. The painting originally came from the collection of publisher and prominent art collector Jean Hugues, who was a close friend of Josef Sima and owned his best paintings. Sima's gallery-quality oil Clouds and Vegetation, from 1929, from the collection of the famous architect, painter and scenographer Bedrich Feuerstein, will be raised from EUR 160 000. The painting was exhibited at Sima's exhibition at the Umelecka beseda (Municipal House) in Prague in 1936. Sima's rare, rarity Portrait of Bedrich Feuerstein from 1934, which will be offered at auction for the starting price of EUR 80 000, also comes from this collection. Both works were acquired by Feuerstein directly from his friend Josef Sima, with whom he travelled in France in 1921. The works were included in the auction directly by the family of Bedrich Feuerstein.

Vaclav Bostik, the most prominent representative of the lyrical current of Czech post-war abstraction, will be represented in the auction by an extraordinary large-format canvas Genesis 1, from 1995, in which the painter captured the magical moment of the divine creation of the world, the origin of the plant and animal kingdoms. The work, from the renowned collection of the Wannieck Gallery, Brno, will be offered for EUR 192 000.

The unique Seascape near Trégastel by the world-famous Frantisek Kupka will also be part of the pre-auction offer. Kupka painted the oil on wood, from 1900 - 1902, in the vicinity of the small town of Trégastel in Brittany, where he often went on holiday. The work will be raised for EUR 80 000. Another work by Kupka that will appear in the auction will be an abstract, many times exhibited watercolour from 1931, Composition aux triangles, for a starting price of EUR 72 000.

Another extraordinary convoy of gallery quality that will appear in the auction will be works from the collection of the renowned Richard Adam Gallery (formerly Wannieck Gallery). In addition to the aforementioned Sykora and Bostik, the auction will also offer works from this unique collection, such as Jan Merta and his first-class painting Quarry, from 1991-1997, with a starting price of EUR 36 000, or the work of the popular Josef Bolf, Untitled, with a starting price of EUR 28 000. Among the thirty other works with this unique provenance, the auction will include important paintings by Jiri Naceradsky, Lubomir Typlt, Vladimir Kokolia, Jiri Petrbok, Vladimir Skrepl, Jiri David, Petr Pisarik and many others.

Collectors and investors will undoubtedly be attracted by the offer of sculptural works. Josef Maratka will be represented in the auction by a unique patinated bronze sculpture, Intelligence, which allegorically depicts human intelligence as a young slender woman dressed in a long flowing dress, holding a book in her left hand. The starting price of the work is set at EUR 20 000. The auction will also offer three bronze sculptures of Kazi, Teta, Libuse by Olbram Zoubek with a starting price of EUR 20 000 per sculpture.

Glass lovers can look forward to a unique glass object from the workshop of Frantisek Vizner. The work Bowl with a Line, 1989, will be offered for EUR 19 600. The clear optical glass from the workshop of Vaclav Cigler, From Point to Space, 1993, will be offered for EUR 15 200. Rony Plesl will be represented in the auction by Foculus Small, 2022, with a starting price of EUR 15 600.

Czech painting of the first half of the twentieth century will be represented in the auction by such sought-after names as Vaclav Radimsky, Joza Uprka, Otakar Kubin (Othon Coubine), Alois Kalvoda, Alfons Mucha, Josef Lada, Josef Capek, Vaclav Spala, Bedrich Feuerstein, Jan Hala and others. The second half of the twentieth century will present works by painters such as Vlastimil Benes, Josef Jira, Jan Bauch, Pravoslav Kotik, Bohumir Matal and Josef Istler.

Contemporary Czech and Slovak art will also be represented by top works by Jiri G. Dokoupil, Jaroslav Rona, Jan Mancuska, Jan Mikulka, Jan Gemrot, Ivan Exner and others.

All works of art have been examined by the most important Czech experts and foreign experts.
The auction house is the only one in the Czech Republic to offer a lifetime guarantee of the authenticity of the offered works of art.

Auction date: November 10, 2024 at 4 PM
Venue of the auction: the Expo 58 ART Exhibition Hall, Letenske sady 1500/80,
170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic

Pre-auction exhibition venue: the Expo 58 ART Exhibition Hall in Letenske sady,
October 9 - November 9 from 10 AM to 6 PM (including weekends and holidays)
November 10 from 10 AM to 3:30 PM
(open daily including weekends and holidays)