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Béla KADAR (1877–1956) Portrait of a Woman, c. 1931 (caricat…
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323
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Béla KADAR (1877–1956) Portrait of a Woman, c. 1931 (caricat…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
Béla KADAR (1877–1956)
Portrait of a Woman, c. 1931 (caricature)
Pencil drawing on paper.
H_ 49 cm W_ 35 cm
Signs of damp.
Signed lower right and inscribed ‘Exposition coloniale Paris 1931’.
Originally from Budapest, Béla Kádár began his artistic training in
Germany, Austria and France, where he took courses in industrial drawing and
design. In 1914, he created frescoes for the Hungarian National Theatre. He
took an interest in popular lyrical expressionism and drew inspiration from the works of
Marc Chagall, Henrich Campendok and Franz Marc. His career truly began
in Vienna in the early 1920s and took off partly thanks to
his close ties with members of the Der Blaue Reiter group. His works were
featured in two prestigious exhibitions at the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin and then
at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. In 1937, one of his compositions
appeared on the cover of the catalogue for the ‘degenerate art’ exhibition organised
by the Nazis. A retrospective was dedicated to him at the National Gallery in
Budapest in 1977.
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