Robert Bereny, Woman, Rare Fauvist/Cubist, Oil on Canvas, 1920's, Signed

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Apr 27, 2024 - May 26, 2024

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• Lot Description

  Woman Reclining, Fauvist Cubist, Rare Oil on Canvas, signed UL, 19 5/8" H by 15 3/4" W, 50 CM H by 40 CM W, circa 1920's, Original Gallery Stamp Verso: The Forster Gyula Center & Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Robert Bereny, Hungarian, 1887-1953, Budapest, Hungary, Paris , France. Known for: Fauvism, Expressionist and Cubist painting. His paintings of this style sell for up to $293,260. Róbert Berény was a Hungarian painter, one of the avant-garde group known as The Eight who introduced cubism and expressionism to Hungarian art in the early twentieth century before the First World War. He had studied and exhibited in Paris as a young man and was also considered one of the Hungarian Fauves. Róbert  As a young man of 17, in 1904 he studied under the artist Tivadar Zemplényi for several months before moving to study at he Académie Julian in Paris. While there, Berény was particularly influenced by the power of Paul Cézanne's art. He also adopted some of the uses of color of the Fauve movement, and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne with French artists of the Fauvists. Berény is best known for his form of expressionism and cubism, which he developed in association with the avant-garde group known as The Eight, who had their first exhibit together in Budapest in 1909. They included the leader Károly Kernstok, Lajos Tihanyi, Béla Czóbel, Dezso Czigány, Ödön Márffy, Dezso Orbán, and Bertalan Pór. He brought to them French influences from his time in Paris. At their next exhibition, in 1911, the group identified as A Nyolcak, or "The Eight." They essentially formed the core of modernist experimentation, and were part of radical intellectual currents in music and literature, as well. Berény's most important work of this early period is his portrait of the composer Béla Bartók (1913). That year he also painted Scene. In 1919, Berény participated in the art life of the brief Hungarian Democratic Republic, and was the leader of the department for painting in the Art Directorate. After the fall of the republic that year, Berény emigrated to Berlin, together with numerous other Hungarian artists and writers. He lived and worked there for several years, continuing his emphasis on cubism and expressionism. He did not return to Hungary until 1926. After 1934, he worked in Zebegény, near the Danube Bend in northern Hungary. He was awarded the Szinnyei Prize in 1936. During the last year of World War II, Berény's atelier was destroyed, together with many of his works. After the war, under the communist government, he became a teacher in what is now the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. He died in 1953. Since the late twentieth century and the political changes in eastern Europe, there has been renewed interest in Hungary's early modernist artists. The exhibits below have honored Berény and others of The Eight, and two bracket the centenary of their first exhibit in 1911 under that name.

  Dimension

  Height: 20.00 in

  Width: 16.00 in

  Depth: 3.00 in

  Depth: 3.00 in

  Weight: 75.00 lbs

  Condition

  Good for age, Might need to be reframed although the present frame validates the period of the 1920's. 

• Provenance

  Provenance: Robert Bereny circa 1920's                                                                                Forster Gyula Center & Gallery, Budpest, Hungary                                              Private US Collector                                                                                            Private Atlanta Collector/Previous Gallery Owner

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