Autumn auction

EVENING SALE PRAGUE November 9, 2025 from 4:00 PM at the Expo 58 ART exhibition hall
(Letenske sady 1500/80, 170 00 Prague 7)

PRE-AUCTION EXHIBITION:
OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 8, 2025: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
NOVEMBER 9, 2025: 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

The autumn Evening Sale Prague of contemporary and modern art, organized by the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery auction house, once again achieved excellent results. Bohumil Kubista's iconic work, Zátiší malířské (Painter's Still Life), was auctioned for an impressive EUR 1 818 490 making it the most expensive still life painting ever sold at auction in Central and Eastern Europe. It was an absolute artistic and collector's gem, which we can consider an icon of Czech Cubism from the painter's heyday. In the pivotal year of 1913, Kubista created only five Cubist oil paintings, which added to the uniqueness of the offered work, as all other works are located in state galleries and foundations. A still life of this quality has not been auctioned in the modern history of the Czech Republic since 1989. 

Zdenek Sykora and his excellent large-format canvas Makrostruktura IV (Schwarz - Weiss 72 IV) from 1972 from the Wannieck Gallery collection in Brno was auctioned for an extraordinary EUR 510 740. This painting was one of only 13 black-and-white paintings that Sykora created between 1971 and 1973. The work represents a new stage in the artist's thinking, consisting of a search for visually interesting details in already completed paintings. Macrostructures stand at the very peak of Sykora's work in the period of structures.

The auction also included a rare work by Emil Filla – Still Life with a Bottle of Rum and an Ace of Trumps from 1913–1920, which was auctioned for a handsome EUR 408 510. Filla's cubism in this painting took on a brighter, more colorful, even cheerful tone. The artist's typical dreamlike view of reality, a departure from the present and the past, and his ability to enjoy the small things in life were also evident here. The auction also included a small Still Life with a Cup and Two Fish on a Decorative Bowl, painted by Emil Filla in 1930. The final price of the work rose to EUR 134 500.

A gray molten glass piece by the world-renowned glassmakers Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova, entitled Rubáš II (Shroud II) from 1996, and a large-format drawing that formed the basis for the design of the subsequent glass object, together formed one auction item, which achieved a result of EUR 139 490, setting a new world auction record for the artists.

A minimalist oil painting by Vaclav Bostik, Untitled, from the Wannieck Gallery collection in Brno, was auctioned for EUR 124 550.

The attention of collectors and investors was undoubtedly also attracted by the two-meter-tall ethereal sculpture Muse (Muse for Jihlava) by Olbram Zoubek, whose price rose to EUR 109 600. ​

Vaclav Radimsky achieved a result of EUR 79 720 with his poetic River in the Landscape, which the painter painted in the vicinity of Giverny, France.

A pair of works by Stanislav Kolibal, Untitled I and II, were sold separately, each fetching EUR 69 750. These minimalist canvases date from Kolibal's transitional period, when he moved entirely to abstract geometric forms. The canvases were exhibited in 1976 at the prestigious Marlborough Galleria in Rome. 

A new world auction record was also set for a large-format painting by Jiri Anderle, whose Drummer and Glutton was auctioned for an impressive EUR 57 410.

Frantisek Kupka's humorous gouache entitled Woman with a Dog was auctioned for EUR 48 830.

The jumper of the auction was a collection of seven graphic prints by Albin Brunovsky, whose Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart rose by an impressive 480% to EUR 14 450. Not far behind was a small work by Pavel Nesleha, whose chalk on paper Untitled climbed by a full 450% to EUR 5 480.

We congratulate all successful bidders, thank you for your patronage, and look forward to seeing you again at the spring auction in 2026!