Lot 46: f - IGNÁC UJVÁRY HUNGARIAN, 1880-1927

signed Ujváry Ignác l.r.

oil on canvas

101 by 174cm., 39 3/4 by 68 1/2 in.

Paris, Hungarian Pavillion at the Exposition Universelle, 1900

PROPERTY FROM A HUNGARIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

By descent from the artist from the artist to the present owner

Ujváry studied under Károly Lotz and Gyula Benczúr (see lot 43) in Munich. In Paris, like many Hungarian artists of his generation, he adopted a freer and fresher palette in response to seeing the work of the plein-airistes and Impressionists. No doubt he would have admired the work of Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, with whose paintings the present work bears striking similarities (fig. 1).