Toyen painting sells in auction for over 30 million crowns

Toyen’s 1929 painting “Night Celebration (Fireworks)” sold for 30.4 million crowns in a Prague auction on Sunday, the third-highest price for a work by the Czech avant-garde painter at a domestic auction.

Auctioneers said “Night Celebration (Fireworks)” is a prime example of Toyen’s artificialism style, bold artistic approach and creative range. Including fees, the final sale price was 36.48 million crowns. Her painting “Circus” sold for nearly 80 million crowns in April.