Current Affairs Brno City Hall protests as valuable Tugendhat Villa statue is sold to foreign collector
A statue by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, which used to stand in the functionalist Tugendhat Villa in the Moravian capital of Brno, was sold to an anonymous bidder for one million pounds on Monday. The "Torso of a Walking Woman" was auctioned off at Sotheby's. But the decision to sell the art in London is now influencing decision-making in the Czech Republic, where Brno city councillors fear the Tugendhat Villa would face a similar fate if it were returned to its original owners.
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