Barki Gergely et al.: Czóbel. A French Hungarian painter - ArtMill publications 5. (Szentendre, 2014)

Gergely Barki: Czóbel from Paris to Paris 1903-1925

147. BÉLA CZÓBEL: PORTRAIT OF MS KÁROLY KERNSTOK, 1924. SZENTENDRE, FERENCZY MUSEUM

148. BÉLA CZÓBEL IN HIS STUDY IN THE 1920S. Private collection

Horváth 1956

Béla Horváth’s interview with Béla Czóbel [1956]. Legacy of the Art Historian, Béla Horváth. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Humanities, Institute of Art History, inv. No. MDK-C-l-217.

Horváth I96i

Béla Horváth’s interview with Béla Czóbel, 24 September 1961. Legacy of the Art Historian, Béla Horváth. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Humanities, Institute of Art History, inv. No. MDK-C-l-217.

Kállai 1934

Kállai, Ernő: Czóbel Béla [Béla Czóbel]. Ars Hungarica, vol. 7. Budapest, 1934.

Kratochwill 2001

Kratochwill, Mimi: Czóbel Béla (1883- 1976) élete és művészete [Life and Art of Béla Czóbel, 1883-1976]. Veszpém - Budapest: Magyar képek, 2001.

A few paintings that represent the best of the Berlin period, previously unknown even from reproductions, are now accessible in German collections. Among these, the most outstanding are three oil paintings from the Buchheim Museum’s collection. They are presented in Hungary for the first time at our exhibition (Plates 146,152 and 153).124

Though Czóbel seems to have been committed to certain art dealers, as far as we know, he did not paint on commission.125 We know of only one portrait that he painted on commission, but as he recounts, he only followed his independent and sovereign creative instinct. “If there is a model before you, you cannot work. The model is only a starting point. You don’t paint the model [...] Setting, colours [...] You paint pictures and not the model. There was a model I painted a portrait of. For instance, Stoki [Károly Kernstok] asked me to paint his wife, but the woman didn’t accept it.”126The picture portraying Károly Kernstok’s wife (Plate 147) was painted in 1924 in Berlin, the same period when he painted his wife, Isolde’s portrait (Plate 150). We know of no pictures painted in Berlin the following year,127 although he only left the city in autumn. Thanks to the general amnesty, compatriots like Róbert Berény and Károly Kernstok were eager to return home to Hungary as soon as possible, but Czóbel headed back to France, to Paris, his beloved second home.

STERREN 2000

Sterren, Virág van der: “Czóbel Béla és Hollandia” [Béla Czóbel and the Netherlands]. Művészettörténeti Értesítő, vol. 49. 2000, P 207.

AZ UTAK I

„Az utak elváltak” A magyar képzőművészet új utakat kereső törekvéseinek sajtóvisszhangja. Szöveggyűjtemény 1.1901-1908 [“The Paths Part” - Press Reaction to Hungarian Fine Art Endeavours to Seek New Paths, 1901-1908. Collected texts, vol. 1]. Árpád Tímár (ed). Pécs - Budapest: Janus Pannonius Museum - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Art History Research Institute, 2009.

Vadak

Magyar Vadak Párizstól Nagybányáig 7904-7974 [Hungarian Fauvesfrom Paris to Nagybánya, 1904-1914]. Krisztina Passuth and György Szűcs (eds). Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery, 2006.

CZÓBEL FROM PARIS TO PARIS, 1903-1925

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