The most expensive painting auctioned in the Czech Republic is Kupka's Conception for 126.5 million CZK
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Prague – The oil painting by František Kupka titled Conception/Danae was sold at today's Prague auction for 115 million crowns. According to Viktorie Kosejková from the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery, the total price including the auction premium is 126.5 million crowns, making Conception not only the most expensive Kupka painting auctioned in the Czech Republic but also the most expensive painting sold at auction in the history of the Czech Republic. The previous record for Czech auction houses was held by Bohumil Kubišta with his Old Prague motif, which sold for 123.6 million crowns including the auction premium two years ago.
The starting price for Conception was 85 million crowns without premium. The painting was auctioned by a bidder in the Expo 58 pavilion who raised the last bid by a million crowns over a telephone offer.
Kupka's oil painting, measuring 49 x 73 centimeters, was created in 1930 and belongs to the so-called machinisms, or paintings in which the artist was inspired by machines and technical achievements. Kupka encoded a story from Greek mythology in this abstract work, in which Zeus reached the hidden royal daughter Danaë by transforming into a golden shower.
The most expensive Kupka painting previously auctioned in the Czech Republic was Divertimento II, which sold in 2020 for 75.2 million crowns without auction premium. Kupka's canvases are also in demand abroad: in 2021, his Tryskání II (Le Jaillissement II) was sold at Sotheby's in London for approximately 231 million crowns.
Overview of the ten most expensive paintings sold at auctions in the Czech Republic
| Author | Title | Price (in millions CZK) |
Year | |
| 1. | František Kupka | Conception/Danae | 126.5 | 2024 |
| 2. | Bohumil Kubišta | Old Prague Motif | 123.6 | 2022 |
| 3. | František Kupka | Divertimento II | 90.24 | 2020 |
| 4. | Toyen | Circus | 79.56 | 2021 |
| 5. | Toyen | The Queen of Spades | 78.65 | 2020 |
| 6. | Oskar Kokoschka | Prague - View from the Křižovnický Monastery | 78.5 | 2019 |
| 7. | František Kupka | Cross Sections II | 78 | 2019 |
| 8. | Toyen | Monte Carlo | 64.8 | 2023 |
| 9. | František Kupka | Series C I. (Countervalues) | 62 | 2016 |
| 10. | František Kupka | Shape of Blue | 57.4 | 2012 |
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