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Miklos Bokor (1927–2019), born in Budapest, was deported to Auschwitz and subsequently other camps in 1944. During hospitalisation after the war, he began teaching himself to draw. Following his first exhibitions in Hungary, he settled in Paris in 1960 and formed connections with the poets Yves Bonnefoy and André du Bouchet.
His work explores landscapes, particularly those of the Lot and Switzerland, before reintroducing anonymous, sometimes spectral figures marked by historical violence. At Maraden, near Martel, he discovered a Romanesque chapel in 1996. Between 1998 and 2002 he painted an extensive fresco cycle there, addressing the fate of the Jewish people and the human condition. The Musée d’Art moderne de Paris and Lyon’s Musée des Beaux-Arts hold his works.
This profile brings together identity references for Miklos Bokor and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Figure rouge vert
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2025-06-12
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–900
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Oil on canvas
La lune si ronde,
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2023-03-02 — 2023-03-15
Published result : 2400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Gouache
Les Diablerets"
gouache
Catalogue period : 2020-09-04 — 2020-09-23
Published result : 900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 700–900
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