Toyen’s painting was sold at an auction in the Municipal House for 35 million
Painting Hidden in Their Reflections by Toyen
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The most expensive Toyen work sold at a domestic auction was the painting Circus, for which the new owner paid a final price of 79.56 million crowns. It is thus the second most expensive painting sold at auctions in R, after Frantik Kupka’s Divertimento II, which was sold in November 2020 for 90.24 million crowns. This was shared by Milo Svoboda on behalf of the European Arts company.
It was an unfashionable mistake for domestic brothers or investors. Similar products of this quality are practically unavailable on the market today, said Toyen Svoboda.
Dlo Skryt in their reflections was exhibited at the pan-European retrospective Toyen, which took place in the last two years at the National Gallery in Prague, the Kunsthalle Deutschland in Hamburg and the Muse dArt Moderne. Toyen was able to work brilliantly with dusk and the world, with the hour between the dog and the wolf, as this condition was called his surrealism, said Karel Srp in his assessment of the painting.
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Toyen is a big fan of tradition. his painting entitled Solitude from 1934 was sold at auction in May of this year for 54 million crowns, including the 20 percent of the auction price.
According to experts, Toyen (1902 and 1980), whose real name is Marie Ermnov, is one of the most remarkable personalities of the Czech and European visual arts of the 20th century. In the years 1925 and 1929, she worked in Pai, where together with Jindich the Tyrsk, she developed the original Czech small direction – artificialism, which represented a unique and poetic alternative to the geometric abstraction and surrealism of the time. Toyen finally moved to the metropolis above the Seine in 1947 and became a veritable surrealist movement. Even the waves of disaster reflected in his mind, and the darkness of eroticism permeates his entire body.
In 2000, a large retrospective installation was prepared by the Gallery of the Capital City of Prague. At the time, it was visited by 70,000 viewers, which today is the number one in domestic gallery traffic. The great fraternal value of Toyen’s work also leads to the fact that the author is one of the artists who are the least likely to die in the country.