Auction day 80

This year's most successful auction in the Czech Republic.

KODL Gallery held its 80th auction, which once again rewrote the history of the art trade in the Czech Republic. Two hundred and fifty works of art with a total starting price of around one hundred and five million CZK were sold for almost two hundred million CZK. The most expensive painting was a canvas by the painter Toyen from the author's peak post-war Paris period, which was auctioned for almost 20 million CZK.

During the auction, it was again possible to create a whole series of author's and other records, not only for the classics of the Czech 19th century and the very popular inter-war modernism, but also for contemporary artists. The six million mark was broken by the rediscovered, and for many decades inaccessible to the public, Children in the Forest painting by Václav Brožík, auctioned for CZK 6,200,000. Large-format Composition by František Foltýn for CZK 8,280,000. A truly extraordinary and completely unique bronze sculpture on the Czech market by world-class artist Salvador Dalí, one of the most important representatives of the surrealist movement, was sold for 8,400,000 CZK. The works of the popular Josef Čapek also resonated – Bathing in Orava was sold for 9,700,000 CZK, and the two-sided canvas Two men in the yard was bought by an interested party for almost four million.