Bela Kádár, Original Gouache 1907

Lot 101

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Nov 12, 2022

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Lot Description

Bela Kádár (1877-1956)
Pejc
1907
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
13 x 11.75 in / 33 x 30 cm
Framed: 18.25 x 16.25 in / 46.3 x 41,3 cm

Provenance:
Private Collection, New York

Bela Kádár was born in 1877 into a working-class Jewish family in Budapest and became one of the most well-known artists of the Hungarian Avant-Garde during the first half of the 20th Century. Though his early work reflected the influence of the Secessionists and Post Impressionists, the artist can most truly be classified as a modernist. The elegant and intimate gouache offered here is a fine example of Kádár’s rare and highly sought-after early work.

Kádár attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and won the Kohner prize in 1910. Along with his fellow Hungarian, Hugo Scheiber, the artist traveled to Berlin in 1923 and began exhibiting with one of the most important avant-garde galleries in Europe, Der Sturm. His work was included in the highly influential journals, Der Sturm and Ma, during the 20’s. As a result of his relationship with Der Sturm, Kádár’s work was also included in Société Anonyme, Inc, organized by Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp and exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926. Kádár was personal friends with Chagall, Picasso, Kandinsky and Kokoschka. Like his contemporaries his style evolved through the decades of the 20th century, incorporating elements of Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Constructivism, and Expressionism. However, Kádár’s subject matter ranged from Hungarian legends with a metaphysical overview, portraits, and fanciful decorative themes.

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