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The 10 most famous Czech painters: František Kupka

František Kupka was the first artist in the world to publicly exhibit abstract art and received a lot of negative reviews for doing so. But nowadays his abstract paintings sell for millions - in 2021 one of his works fetched over GBP 7.5 million (over CZK 230 million) at an auction at Sotheby’s in London, the highest amount a Czech painting has ever sold for at auction.

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