US EditionAn Ancient Map of Moravia and a Kokoschka Painting. Jan Masaryk's Art Collection Returned to Prague
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Masaryk's Collection for "All the Money". Prague Acquired Rare Works From the Apartment of Tgm's Son
"We don't know the exact price," says Jana Peroutková, art curator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, going back to 1949. That's when an auction was held in London, where items from Jan Masaryk's apartment were auctioned, among other things. The former Czechoslovak ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister had been dead for more than a year at the time. He died shortly after the February communist coup after a still-unexplained fall from…
Art objects from the London apartment of former Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk have arrived at the Černín Palace. The fact that he liked to remember his homeland during his exile is evidenced by his frequent drawings of Prague and an ancient map of Moravia. It could also allegedly be one of the very first such depictions of this region. The remains of the tragically deceased politician were received by the head of diplomacy, Jan Lipavský, on Thurs…
Prague - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken over the art collection from the estate of former Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. It contains three dozen works of art that originally decorated his London apartment. The estate was donated to the state by the family of Masaryk's then secretary Lumír Soukup. The collection was presented to journalists today by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (uncredited) and the curator of the ministry's art collect…
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