The Adventures and Misadventures of Emil Filla pictures
ARTinvestment.RU   29 ноября 2011

Last week, four of the famous Czech artists were kidnapped, one returned to his homeland, and another came in twenty of the most successful Czech auction lots

name of one of the most famous Czech Cubism, Prague avant-garde leader Emil Filla (Emil Filla) last week, frequently flashed in Czech media.

all began with that in the early morning on Friday, November 18, four of Filla were stolen from a castle Perutz, located 50 kilometers northwest of Prague. In the castle, where Filla spent a few years after World War II, is a permanent exhibition of his work. The exhibition curator Alice Shtefanchikova (Alica Stefancikova) told me that the alarm triggered at 4:00 am, and after ten minutes of the castle came the police, but by this time the thieves had already fled.

kidnappers have taken four oil paintings paintings: Paintings, "Still life with fruit basket and clarinet" (1948), "The Woman with the cards" (1946), "Still Life with Fruit Vase" (1946) and "Blind" (1926). Stolen works were not insured They are estimated at 50 to 80 million Czech crowns. According to the Czech media, it became known that in the neighboring village of November 20, they found several empty frames, but Alice Shtefanchikova not confirmed that this is the frame of the missing works. The first attempt to rob the castle Perutz occurred in 1992, but then the offender has been arrested.

However, on November 20 fate decided, apparently, to compensate for the strike on this day of Emil Filla canvas "Comforter" in 1911 to auction in Prague was sold for 11 million euros (almost double the start) and was included, so the twenty most expensive work sold at auction in the Czech Republic. Trading in Prague at the Hilton spent Gallery Galerie Art Praha. Last year, another job Filla - "Still life with bottle of sherry" (1914) - earned 16.25 million euros and has become the most expensive work of the artist in the Czech auction. Another painting by Emil Filla, "Vayatelnitsa in his studio," along with other works of the Czech avant-garde was exhibited in June at Sotheby's auction in London of the Czech masters then brought in a total of 11 million pounds (double the estimate).

Finally, to top stories on Wednesday, November 22, Emil Filla canvas " Two Women "(1913), along with the painting" The Dancer "Vincenz Benes (Vincenc Benes) and a bronze sculpture by Otto Gutfroynda (Otto Gutfreund) returned to the Czech Republic from Austria. The works were arrested last May, when they were exhibited in Vienna, at the suit of the company Diag Human, engaged in the supply of blood plasma. Diag Human for the past 20 years trying to win back the work of Czech museums, but the Austrian Court of Appeal and this time the company rejected the claim, after which the works were returned to their museums - the National Gallery in Prague and the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Czech radio reported, however, that the company Diag Human is going to challenge the decision of the Austrian court.

In response to the actions of Diag Human Czech Ministry of Culture has taken drastic measures: it is generally prohibited to send products Art from local museums to visiting the exhibition. According to Czech Radio, as a result of this measure for six months, the Czech Republic suffered a loss of $ 1.2 million kroons, and was forced to refuse to participate in 58 international exhibitions in London, Paris, Houston and other cities . Earlier it was planned that in the current and next year to traveling exhibitions will travel over a thousand works of art from museums in Czech.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artinvestment.ru