Girl in Pink sold for 12 million

The Girl in Pink, a 1916 painting by Cubist painter Josef Capek has been sold for 12 million crowns (614,000 US dollars), the second-highest price ever fetched at auction for a Czech painting. The painting was put on the market by a private collector whose entire art collection was confiscated by the communist authorities and returned to him after 1989. Josef Capek, brother of the Czech playwright Karel Capek, was an outstanding representative of Czech Cubism. He was arrested by the Nazis and died in a concentration camp in 1945.