Zrzavý painting sells for 6.9 million crowns

A 1913 portrait of Adolf Gärtner by the painter Jan Zrzavý sold for 6.9 million crowns, or more than 400,000 US dollars, at an auction in Prague on Saturday, becoming the second highest-selling Zrzavý painting. The portrait,m which was considered lost in the last decade, was influenced by cubism but also show traces of Zrzavý’s later style.