Lot 207 , Béla Iványi-Grünwald, Hungarian (1867-1940), Gypsy woman and child

Béla Iványi-Grünwald (Hungarian, (1867-1940))
Gypsy woman and child,
signed lower left,
with pencil inscriptions,
pencil and watercolour on buff paper,
24.5cm x 10cm

Provenance: The György Gordon (1924-2005) collection of Austro-Hungarian Art

£100-200
Béla Iványi-Grünwald was a Hungarian painter, a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony. Born in Som, Iványi-Grünwald began his artistic studies under Bertalan Székely and Károly Lotz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1882–1886) and continued them at Munich in 1886–1887 and at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1887 to 1890.

His subjects were taken from his immediate surroundings and the human figure is shown as an integral part of the landscape. Iványi-Grünwald also taught in Hollósy's Nagybánya school until he took up an award in 1905 that enabled him to spend a year in Rome. In 1906 he held an exhibition of his works in the Ernst Museum in Budapest, and this event effectively announced the end of his Nagybánya period, although he remained there a few more years.

A gradual change was brought about in Iványi-Grünwald's work by the influence of younger Hungarian painters returning from Paris and working in the style of the Fauves. More direct inspiration was provided by the exhibition of modern French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting held in Budapest in 1907.

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Sold for £340