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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ART+ Almanac 2013 Published

The most important events in the local and global art markets

Last year was a record one for the Czech art market. According to ART+ statistics, collectors and investors spent CZK 946 million at Czech auctions and 157 works were auctioned for more than one million korunas each. One would need CZK 123 million...

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...

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 Best Year So Far

Czech Art Market in 2012

František Kupka’s painting Shape of Blue (Tvar modré), which sold for 57.42 million Czech crowns (close to 2.3 million euros) in April, became the most expensive work of Czech art ever sold at an auction, not only in the Czech Republic, but worldw...

Only the Very Best

Year 2012 at Czech Art Auctions

To have purchased the 10 most expensive art works of 2012, a potential buyer would have needed more than 200 million Czech crowns, whereas a year earlier they would have needed less than half this amount. The previous year saw a new record as far...

Dorotheum (6th March 2010)

The auction of renaissance and baroque books collection became a sensation of Saturday auction arranged by the Dorotheum company.

Top 10 of the year 2009

The purchase of complete set of paintings rated among the top ten in 2009 would require 149 million Czech crowns.