Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:18:36 +0200https://english.radio.cz/exceptional-french-painting-fails-interest-czech-art-collectors-8601731© 2026 Radio Prague International This weekend a painting by a famous French Fauvist painter Maurice de Vlaminck was sold at an auction in Prague’s Dorotheum for 5.3 million crowns (approximately 280,000 US dollars). Even though it was valued at 7 million crowns, in the end it only slightly exceeded the starting price. Vlaminck’s “Landscape with Buildings”, dating back to 1914, has thus become the 13th most expensive work of art to be sold at a Czech auction. The head of the auction house Marie Galova says it is not easy to explain the lack of interest on the part of buyers but it may be connected with the local character of the Czech art market. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/vlaminck_krajina_se_stavenimi.jpg?timestamp=1591389425 https://english.radio.cz/exceptional-french-painting-fails-interest-czech-art-collectors-8601731 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9