Prague, Nov 26 (CTK) – Czech painter Frantisek Kupka’s (1871-1957) Series CI (Plans Miniscules) painting of 1935 was sold for 62 million crowns including the auction surcharge, in Prague on Saturday, which is a local auction record.
It pushed to second position Kupka’s Form of Blue after four years. It was auctioned for 55.75 million crowns not including the auction surcharge in 2012.
The reserve price was 60 million crowns.
The international record for Kupka is even higher and it is almost 70 million crowns.
Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka’s (1886-1980) Frogs fetched 36.25 million crowns. Kokoschka painted the work in protest against the entry of Warsaw Pact troops into former Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring reform movement in 1968.
Kupka is a Czech painter who is sold best at home as well as abroad.
Kokoschka’s Frogs had a reserve price of 25 million crowns plus a lowered auction surcharge of 4 percent.
The most expensive work by Kokoschka sold in Prague was London, Chelsea Reach, which fetched 19.5 million crowns.
