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Born in Kecskemét in 1867 and deceased in Budapest in 1945, Adolf Fényes trained in Budapest, Weimar and Paris. Associated with the artists’ colony at Szolnok, he developed a painting practice attentive to ordinary people’s living conditions. In his cycle devoted to the poor, unassuming figures and dark tones convey the social significance of his subjects, as in Mother, painted in 1901.
His palette subsequently brightened in landscapes, small-town streets and peasant interiors. Around 1910, his still lifes favoured strong colours and clearly defined contours: Poppy Seed Cake, held by the Hungarian National Gallery, belongs to this period. Biblical compositions and imagined landscapes also feature in his later work, in which observation of everyday life increasingly makes room for a more stylised pictorial language.
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Oil on canvas
Ungarisches Dorf im Winter
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-06-23
Published result : 10000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–4000
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