Sunday April 13, 2025 at 4 PM in Expo 58 ART EXHIBITION HALL
PRE-EXHIBITION EXHIBITION
MARCH 12 - APRIL 12, 2025: 10 AM-6 PM
APRIL 13, 2025: 10 AM-3:30 PM
(open daily including weekends and holidays)
(online bidding is not possible)
Frantisek Kupka’s painting Ovale d'Acier, 1927 is one of the most important lots in our spring auction, with a starting price of EUR 256 000. The work belongs to Kupka's abstract period after 1925, when he began to move away from his richly modulated spherical visions and decided to paint with a new vigour. The work Ovale d'Acier is a response to the accelerating pace of life and industrialisation that made a lasting impression on Kupka, who lived in Puteaux near Paris at the time. The present work belongs to some of Kupka’s most sought-after paintings. The auction also features Kupka’s Satirical Scene, which was most likely used as an illustration for the magazine Cocorico, published by the French painter Paul Emil Boutigny in Paris from 1898. The starting price is EUR 10 000.
The auction also includes a rare oil on canvas by Jan Zrzavy - Tête / Head from 1912 - 1945 with a starting price of EUR 248 000. The work comes from the collection of the painter's friend, the world-renowned piano master Emil Gilels. The painting exudes the perfect melancholy of a human being with a mysterious expression, with the face standing out against the indeterminate background in a manner reminiscent of the artist's adored master Leonardo da Vinci.
Vaclav Bostik, the most prominent representative of the lyrical current of the Czech Post-War Abstraction, will be represented by an extraordinary large-scale oil on canvas In principio, 1989. This painting belongs to a group of Bostik’s works from the mid-1980s and depicts a mandala, or circle in Sanskrit. The canvas comes from the renowned collection of the Wannieck Gallery, Brno and the bidding will start at EUR 192 000. The auction will also offer a second earlier work by Bostik, his geometric Untitled. This will be offered with a starting price of EUR 36 000.
We are also thrilled to offer Toyen’s rarely seen collage Untitled (Penguin and Bear). The work comes from the collection of the French writer, actor, and film critic Georges Goldfayne, who was gifted the work by the artist. It is worth noting that only a small number of Toyen’s collages exist. The starting price is EUR 28 000.
Further extraordinary auction highlights of gallery quality include works from the collection of the renowned Wannieck Gallery, Brno. Alongside the already mentioned Bostik, we will also offer Vladimir Kokolia’s first-class painting Corridor, 1991 with a starting price of EUR 12 800, and the work of the popular Jiri Cernicky, Klama, with a starting price of EUR 7 200. Other auctioned works sharing this unique provenance include important paintings by Vit Soukup, Tomas Cisarovsky, Jiri Naceradsky, Petr Kvicala, Jiri David, Antonin Strizek, and many others.
A rangeof sculptural works on offer will also undoubtedly attract the attention of collectors and investors. Vincenc Makovsky will be represented by a unique bronze relief Reclining, 1929 - 1930, considered one of the most important modernist sculptures. Here, the artist utilised the Cubist analytical approach, breaking traditional human figures down into individual, simplified parts. These fragments stand out for their rawness, which is emphasised through the artist’s use of metallic elements. The starting price of the work is set at EUR 27 600. The auction features a second bronze sculpture by Vincenc Makovsky titled Curled Up, 1932, with a starting price of EUR 6 000, and a gilt bronze work by the popular contemporary painter and sculptor Jaroslav Rona, Bust, 1989, with a starting price of EUR 10 000.
Glass lovers can look forward to a unique glass object Dragon Tooth, 2024 from the workshop of Jaroslav Prosek and offered for sale at EUR 8 000. Clear optical glass from the workshop of Vaclav Cigler, Shifted and Steles, from 2014 and 1990, will be available for EUR 8 000 and EUR 4 800.
The Czechpainting of the first half of the twentieth century will be represented by the famous and much sought-after Alfons Mucha, Bedrich Feuerstein, Otakar Kubin, Pravoslav Kotik, Jan Slavicek, and others. The artists representing the second half of the twentieth century include painters such as Jan Kubicek, Jan Bauch, Jiri Anderle, and Kveta Valova.
The Contemporary Czech and Slovak art will also be represented by top works by Jiri G. Dokoupil, Jan Gemrot, Michael Rittstein, Barbara Barbar Kysilkova, Martin Lukac, Pavel Trucla and others.
All auctioned works of art have been verified by the most prominent Czech experts and foreign specialists.
Our auction house is the only one in the Czech Republic to providea lifetime guarantee of authenticity of auctioned works of art.
Auction date: 13 April 2025 at 4 PM
Venue of the auction: exhibition hall Expo 58 ART, Letenské sady 1500/80, 170 00 Prague 7
Pre-auction exhibition venue: exhibition hall Expo 58 ART, Letenské sady 1500/80, 170 00 Prague 7
March 12 - April 12, 2025 from 10 AM to 6 PM
April 13, 2025 from 10 AM to 3:30 PM
(open daily including weekends and holidays)
