Association calls on Prague Mayor not to place Mucha’s Slav Epic in Savarin palace

The Society for the Slav Epic in Prague has called on the city’s mayor, Bohuslav Svoboda, not to place the famous cycle of Alfons Mucha’s paintings in the Savarin Palace near Wenceslas Square, which is being renovated.

The city is negotiating placing the cycle in the building with the painter's heir John Mucha, with a view to ending a dispute over its ownership.

One of the founders of the association, the painter’s granddaughter Jarmila Mucha Plocková, said earlier that she would challenge the decision in court.