12th Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale Part I.
Virág Judit Gallery launches this year’s auction season with Surrealist works and a real speciality, a surprise piece by Simon Hantaï – a rare find at domestic auctions. The 12th Post-War and Contemporary Sale includes outstanding masterpieces by János Fajó, Lajos Kassák and László Lakner, among others.
The emergence of a Simon Hantaï work – by one of the most famous Hungarian abstract painters – is a real novelty on the Hungarian art market. The huge international interest towards the artist’s oeuvre is illustrated by the fact that one of his paintings was sold for €4 million, more than HUF 1.4 billion at Sotheby’s Paris in 2016. Hantaï settled in Paris in 1948 and never returned to Hungary. He created a unique world through his modern works using untraditional tools such as blades, cloths and sponges.
János Fajó’s joyful, pulsating work Sponge cakes III. is one of the first paintings to use the iconic sponge cake figure. The large scale, museum-quality piece starts from HUF 10 million.
Composition No.3. by Lajos Kassák was painted in 1960 and was exhibited in a renowned Parisian gallery.
László Lakner’s Surrealist pieces are rarely found on the domestic art market. Starting at HUF 7.5 million Still Life is a real rarity for art collectors.
Details
Auction: 23 April, 2023 (Sunday) at 6 p.m.
Location: Budapest Congress Center’s Bartók Hall
Exhibition preview: April 11-22, 2023, daily from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Virág Judit Gallery
Virtual tour
Items of 12th Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale Part I.
57
Swierkiewicz Róbert (1942-2019)
Woman in motion, 1967 / Sitting man in motion
Starting Price: 550 000 Ft
61
Halász Károly (1946-2016)
Axonometry with Elements (Bruno's Garden), 1972
Starting Price: 2 200 000 Ft
62
Halász Károly (1946-2016)
Axonometry with Elements (Black&White), 1972
Starting Price: 1 500 000 Ft
74
Swierkiewicz Róbert (1942-2019)
Saint Square of Our Imagination XV., 2001
Starting Price: 1 200 000 Ft
80
Paizs László (1935-2009)
White Image (originally titled Materials and Forms I.), 1967
Starting Price: 2 400 000 Ft
84
Lossonczy Tamás (1904-2009)
Purple Background with Colored Structures, 1971
Starting Price: 460 000 Ft