Chocolate box to Hungarian taste – for now
THE 19th century European Paintings sales at Sotheby’s are divided into a number of regionally-themed sections which are enjoying varying degrees of health. Although they continue to have their occasional moments, the formerly booming markets for Orientalist, German and Scandinavian pictures continue to be pale reflections of their former selves.
But with the EU now expanded to 25 members, the developing economies of countries like the Czech Rep…