Kontuly, (1904 Miskolc - 1983 Budapest)

Lot 3116 limit € 6.500

Oil/canvas, capture of three Hungarian officers by imperial soldiers, detailed impasto painting in effective dramaturgy, commissioned work for the National Gallery Budapest, signed lower right, rs. Signed on the stretcher with the address of the artist from Budapest, gold stucco frame with floral decor (minor damage), minor signs of age (paint layer damaged in places, among other things), approx. 160 x 200 cm, with frame approx. 185 x 224 cm, Kontuly, Hungarian painter and Graphic artist in various subjects, including history painting, studied in Budapest, Prague and Rome, pupil of István Réti, had held a professorship at the Budapest Academy since 1941, the picture was created around 1980 shortly before the artist's death