Kupka painting sold for 15 million Czech crowns at auction

A painting by Frantíšek Kupka, L‘Apothéose d Héléne, was sold for 15 million Czech crowns at auction. The asking price was 12 million crowns. Another work by a Czech artist, Toyen’s Potápeč or Diver from 1926, was sold for 13 million crowns in the same auction, which was held at Prague’s Topičův salon on Sunday. Other works by Frantíšek Kupka’s were sold for record prices in the past. In 2007, his painting Abstract Composition set the Czech auction record for the most expensive work of art ever sold.

Author: Sarah Borufka