Foreign Ministry unveils Jan Masaryk’s art collection in Prague

The Czech Foreign Ministry unveiled a newly acquired art collection from the estate of Jan Masaryk at the Tuscany Palace in Prague on Thursday.

The roughly 30-piece collection once belonged in Masaryk’s London apartment and was donated by the family of his wartime secretary, Lumír Soukup. Among other things, it includes a painting by Oskar Kokoschka and rare 16th-century maps of Bohemia and Moravia.

The artworks will undergo restoration, with a public exhibition planned for the autumn. Soukup originally saved the collection by buying it at auction in 1949. His daughter, now living in France, donated it to the state.