Lot 141: Arthur Lajos Halmi (Hungarian, 1866-1939)

The Party Dress
signed and inscribed 'HALMI Paris' (lower right)
oil on panel
21 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (54.7 x 34 cm.)

A genre painter born in Budapest, Halmi was awarded the Munkacscy prize when exhibiting in 1891 and the Bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris for the same painting After the Exam. He gained an honourable mention at the Salon in 1892.

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