The Samburu Project – Splash Bash 2018
Auction Ends: Oct 20, 2018 09:45 PM PDT

Art

Bela Adalbert Czobel

Item Number
141
Estimated Value
600 USD
Sold
100 USD to jo01f1873
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

Béla Adalbert Czobel

Expressionist Head of a Young Woman

circa 1920-1925

original lithograph in black ink on warm white paper

signed in pencil lower right 'Czobel'

16 x 12 1/4 inches

Courtesy of Stuart and Beverly Denenberg, Los Angeles, in loving memory of John Flather

 

All works of art are framed and sold as-is, unless otherwise specified. Shipping not included.

 

Item Special Note

BÉLA ADALBERT CZOBEL (1883-1976) was one of the most highly regarded figures in 20th-century Hungarian art. A student of Béla Iványi Grünwald at the Free School of Painting in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare, Rom.) from 1902 to 1903, he studied in Munich and at the Académie Julian in Paris. At the Salon d’Automne he exhibited his work with Fauvist artists in 1905, In 1911 he became a member of the "Nyolcak" (“The Eight”), an influential Modernist group in Budapest. From 1914 he lived in the Netherlands and later in Berlin.
 
His unique cityscapes, interiors, and portraits, which had a powerful ambience reminiscent of German Expressionists. In 1925 he moved to Paris, where he remained for 15 years and where he produced most of his mature works, and eventually 1929 held a one-man exhibition in New York City in 1929.
 
After World War II he alternated summers and winters in Paris and Szentendre, a picturesque Hungarian town. Czobel was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1948.