In April, the Czech state purchased dozens of artifacts, mainly furniture, worth 13 million crowns, at a similar auction in the Netherlands.
At present, experts are interested in purchasing 15 paintings. They have asked the Culture Ministry for a special subsidy of about seven million crowns, Musil said. "During the auction Old Master Sale in London that will be organised by the Christie's auction house on July 8-9, about 18 art works from the Liechtenstein collections formerly from the Valtice and Lednice chateaus will be put on sale," Alice Suchanova from the agency represented Christie's Czech branch told CTK today. Specialists from the NPU have assessed the auction offer and have carried out negotiations Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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