Emil Filla painting sold for 5.2 million CZK

A painting by Czech cubist painter Emil Filla was sold at an auction in Prague on Saturday for 5.2 million Czech crowns or approximately 250,000 US dollars. The sale makes Filla's "Still Life with an Artichoke" the ninth-most expensive painting sold at auction in the Czech Republic since 1990. The biggest sum paid for a painting in the country was by another Cubist painter Josef Capek. His Bath was sold at an auction last year for 9.3 million crowns (450,000 USD).