2024-06-09 11:16:19
The pastel Jaro by Jan Zrzavý was auctioned at Arthouse Hejtmánek’s Thursday public sale for five.5 million crowns, together with mark-up. It thus grew to become the creator’s most costly work on paper bought.
“The work from 1927 was a part of a personal assortment, it was the primary time since its creation that it was in public and was acquired by an auctioneer on the telephone,” explains Jana Bryndová from the public sale home. The asking worth began at 3.2 million crowns, the public sale markup was 24 p.c.
Zrzavý portrayed a younger man sitting in a panorama in a drawing and on canvas. He later captured virtually the identical scene, the nude of a younger man in a mysterious panorama, in a portray of the identical identify from 1929. This canvas is within the collections of the Gallery of Positive Arts in Ostrava. Zrzavý additionally depicted the younger man within the panorama in a Parisian drawing from 1924.
In accordance with the proprietor of the public sale home, Tomáš Hejtmánek, the pastel method helped protect the unique colour of the auctioned work.
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator and scenographer Jan Zrzavý was an essential determine in Czech artwork and a consultant of the avant-garde from the start of the twentieth century. In public sale halls, his works are in demand and consumers pay thousands and thousands for them. The document is held by Zrzavé’s portray Improbable Panorama, bought in 2020 for 28.08 million crowns together with mark-up.
The portray Masks III from 1946 by František Muzika, a painter, illustrator and scenographer from the avant-garde scene, was additionally auctioned for 7.1 million crowns this Thursday. “The portray Masks III is a powerfully lyrically spectacular work from the interval when Muzika definitively closed the pictorial collection of tragic parables of the conflict years,” mentioned artwork historian Rea Michalová in her evaluation of the work.
This isn’t Muzik’s most costly work, Gobelin II (Fuga II) from 1962 was bought final yr for 9.6 million crowns. His work Night time II was auctioned for a similar worth in 2018.