Unfulfilled Expectations?

Cullen Collection Sale London 2014

A collection like the Cullen Collection could have originated only in the very specific atmosphere of the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, the era of the melting of the political ice and the unprecedented openness of the West towards Eastern Europe. I...

Buying Back

Czech Art on the International Market

<span lang="en-GB">Collectors and investors spent over CZK 100 million at global auctions of Czech artworks. </span><span lang="en-GB">One can only guess what the proportion of buyers from the Czech Republic was, but it was probably significant.</...

The Czech Avant-garde in London

Roy and Mary Cullen Collection at auction

After the recent death of the philanthropist and collector Roy Cullen, it was to be expected that some of his art collections would soon appear on the market. Therefore, it was no surprise that Sotheby’s announced that on 12 November, it would be...

Gabriel von Max

Lost Gabriel von Max's Painting at TEFAF

One of the few Czech works offered at this year’s TEFAF trade fair in Maastricht was a painting of St. Ludmila by Gabriel von Max. The painting, long considered to be lost, was one of Max’s early masterpieces and its history is an interesting case...

Missing Schikaneder at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s, 22 May 2014, London

Missing work by Jakub Schikaneder discovered! Two years after the large retrospective exhibition of Jakub Schikaneder at the Waldstein Riding School, A Street Corner in Prague, dated between 1900 and 1910 appears at an auction of 19th century Euro...

Record Knüpfer at Auction Again

Beneš Knüpfer: Duel of the Tritons in London

A canvas more than two metres wide by the Czech painter Beneš Knüpfer is one of the items at the May auction of the 19th century European art in London. According to the catalogue, it is the painting of the famous motif Duel of the Tritons, exhibi...

Record-free

Slovak Art Market in 2014

Collectors and investors spent almost 5 million euros at auctions organised by three Bratislava auction houses last year, and thirty paintings sold for more than 30,000 euros each, which is the equivalent to one million Slovak korunas.

Hascoe collection sold for £11,103,903

Record sale of Czech Art in London

Sotheby’s Sale of The Hascoe Family Collection of Important Czech Art brought £11,103,903 / $18,032,738 / 303,326,131 CZK, far exceeding the pre‐sale estimate (£4.17‐6.25 million / $6.7‐10 million / 114‐170.8 CZK million). The auction achieved sell‐...

Picture report from Maastricht

Picture Report from the Trade Fair in Maastricht This Year, by Jan Rasch. 

The Second Year

J&T Banka Art Index 2015

<span lang="en-GB">In its second year, the </span><span lang="en-GB">J&T Banka Art Index experienced only partial changes. The top positions did not change, but ten new names appeared in the top 100. Some artists moved up the chart, even by severa...

Czechs in London

London Cullen Collection & Czech Art Sales

Sotheby’s – The auction of the collection of the American couple the Cullens, which took place in London on Wednesday, 12 November 2014, yielded 784,200 pounds sterling (excluding VAT and other fees). Expressed in Czech korunas, collectors paid 27...

Post-war Art

Post-war Art on the Czech Market 2014

The category of post-war modernism consolidated its position as the second most important segment on the Czech auction market last year and also an area that has enjoyed dynamic development in recent years. Of the 40 artist records last year, roug...

Antique Design

Antiques Market as Seen by the Dealers

<span lang="en-GB">The antiques market has its own </span><span lang="en-GB">foibles, but the same trends apply to it as with dealing in art, especially when it comes to the emphasis on quality and name and the price difference between exceptional...

On the move

Czech Art Market in 2014

The year 2014 passed without any great changes or surprises on the Czech market. There was no shortage of record sales, but the total turnover was 10 per cent lower. A still life by Emil Filla was the most expensive painting of the year and Qi Bai...

ART+ Index in 2014

Index of Czech Art Auctions

<span lang="en-GB">The </span><span lang="en-GB">ART+ Index dropped 10 per cent last year and finished at 737.19 points. The index had been continually dropping since October 2013 and hit a two-year low in September 2014. At the end of the year, i...

The Czech Qi Baishi

Record sales of the Chinese modernist

<span lang="en-GB">The first time a</span><span lang="en-GB">n ink painting by the classic Chinese modernist Qi Baishi appeared at an auction in the Czech Republic was twelve years ago. It sold for the starting price of almost CZK 60,000. One of h...

An Unknown Gustav Klimt

National Gallery Exhibits Newly Discovered Klimt

<span lang="en-GB">The discovery of a Gustav Klimt painting that has not been exhibited for years belongs to the </span><span lang="en-GB">realm of art-historian dreams. The idea that such a work could be part of a private Czech collection sounds...