Premium 12 October 2016, 3:05pm

Masterpieces of Hungarian art are waiting for bidders (x)

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Hungarian art is becoming more and more canonized both in art history and in auctions, however it still has affordable prices that could sign great investment for collectors. Therefore this week műtárgy.com, the leading search engine for Hungarian art, presents seven masterpieces of Hungarian fine arts which will be biddable in the auctions of the next weeks.

Hungarian art became more recognized in the museums and auction houses of Europe during the last years, thanks to the activities of Hungarian galleries, auction houses and museums. In the previous years there were numerous shows that displayed Hungarian art in international context, such as Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele at the Royal Academy, London in 2010, or the Chefs-d’œuvre de Budapest at the Musée du Luxemburg, Paris in this year. In the followings mutargy.com is introducing seven masterpieces from the last three centuries of Hungarian painting, from neoclassicism to abstract art, which are unquestionably representing the peaks of Hungarian art. These works still have moderate prices, compared to the hammer prices of international auction houses, but according to their aesthetical values they could belong to the best collections of the world. Károly Markó the Elder was one of the first Hungarian landscape painter, who spent most of his life in Italy and painted numerous mythological and bucolic landscapes. His oeuvre was exhibited in the Hungarian National Gallery in 2011 in the show From Myth to Image.

Károly Markó the Elder: Bathing nymph, 1843, oil on canvas, 32 x 27 cm Starting price: 21.300 EUR László Paál became recognized due to his landscapes too, but he was mainly active in Germany and in France, where he got in touch with the circles of the Barbizon School and was influenced by Impressionism and plain air painting.

László Paál: Sunset in the forest (Spring evening in Aperwald), 1871, oil on canvas, 78 x 127.5 cm Starting price: 79.000 EUR In 1905 Vilmos Perlott-Csaba attended the Julian Academy in Paris, and he became one of the first pupils of Matisse who strongly influenced his style. One of the key points of his career was when in 1907 he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne together with the fauve artists.

Vilmos Perlrott-Csaba: Paris street scene with color posters, 1920, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 65 cm Starting price: 39.500 EUR Imre Goth moved from Budapest to Berlin after the WWI, where he painted numerous art deco portraits on high class women of the Weimar Republic. In 1937 he moved to London where he spent the rest of his life.

Imre Goth: Art Deco beauty, oil on canvas, 1928, oil on canvas, 107 x 75.5 cm Gyula Batthyány painted the higher classes too in his very specific style that could be characterized as a ripe, mannerist version of Art Nouveau. Batthyány, whose great-grandfather was the prime minister of Hungary in 1848, had aristocrat origins, he was the Earl of Németújvár.

Gyula Batthyány: Two Ladies, early 1930s, oil on canvas, 105.5 x 73.5 cm Starting price: 46.000 EUR Simon Hantai, who left Hungary in 1948 was strongly influenced by the French Surrealism, and by Jackson Pollock's action painting. He became well-recognized in France: he represented the country at the Venice Biennale and in 2013 a retrospective of his work was held at the Centre Pompidou.

Simon Hantai: Manteaux de lavierge, 1960, oil on canvas, 45 x 33.5 cm Starting price: 39.500 EUR Ludmil Siskov was an outstanding painter of the Hungarian Pop-art of the 1960s, who preferred using acrylic technique. In this image he painted an auto racing scene that in the collective imagination belonged to the “American Dream".