Béla Adalbert CZÓBEL (1883-1976)

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Béla Adalbert CZÓBEL (1883-1976)
* Young girl reading, 1964 Oil on canvas, signed upper right. 73 x 60 cm Exhibitions : - Béla Czóbel Hungarian Painter (1883 - 1976), MAGYart, room of Exhibitions : du Vieux Colombier, September 11 - October 13, 2001, described and reproduced under N°35 of the catalog. ÉCOLE DE PARIS SET OF WORKS FROM THE FORMER MICHEL KELLERMANN COLLECTION (lots 47 to 91) Béla Czóbel was born on September 4, 1883 in Budapest and died on January 30, 1976 in the same city. Béla Czóbel's father, a grain merchant from Bellus, a small town on the Moravian border, moved to Budapest shortly before his son was born. His grandfather, a decorative painter, directed Béla Czobel towards an artistic career, which he began in 1902 in the painters' colony of Nagybánya in Transylvania. The following year, Czobel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he met Jules Pascin, Rudolf Levy and Walter Bondy, whom he would later meet in Montparnasse. In October 1903, Czóbel went to Paris for the first time and attended classes at the Académie Julian, then under the direction of Jean-Paul Laurens. He won a first prize for nude studies at the competition of this academy. Czóbel met Henri Matisse, took part in the Fauve movement and exhibited alongside Derain, Vlaminck, Braque and Matisse in the room devoted to Fauvism at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. He also took part in the Salon des Indépendants (1905-1919) and exhibited in Holland (1914-1918), Berlin (1919-1925), Paris (1926-1929) and New York (1927). In Paris he met his fellow countrymen, including Ödön Márffy and Róbert Berény, with whom he founded the first Hungarian avant-garde group called the "Eight" in 1909. Between 1919 and 1925, Czóbel lived in Berlin and discovered German expressionism, before moving to France in 1925. In 1940 he returned to Hungary and settled in Szentendre (Sources: Internet, Wikipedia) We do not know the date of the meeting between the artist and the Kellermann family, it certainly dates back to his Parisian stays. What is certain is that in 1926 Czóbel painted a picture of the son of the antique dealer Dezso Kellermann whom he called My friend Michel, who is none other than Michel Kellermann as a child. Michel Kellermann remained a faithful friend of Czóbel's until the painter's death and, after his friend's death, he donated one hundred and forty drawings to the Czóbel Museum in Szentendre.
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