Barki Gergely et al.: Czóbel. A French Hungarian painter - ArtMill publications 5. (Szentendre, 2014)
Emőke Bodonyi: Czóbel's water colours and graphic works
189. Béla Czóbel: Portrait of a Woman, 1950s. Szentendre, Ferenczy Museum 191. Béla Czóbel: head of a Woman, 1950S. Szentendre, Ferenczy Museum 190. Béla Czóbel: Sitting Woman Leaning on Her Knees, 1940s. Szentendre, Ferenczy Museum made in Kernstok’s studio in i923.”55The work’s lithograph version is also known, which does not exactly follow the structure of the chalk drawing: the model raising his pipe to his mouth, the hand in pocket shows a kind of nonchalant elegance, as if Czóbel would have formed easier the original chalk drawing’s effect in rendering the strong personality.56 Czóbel’s graphic art is characterized even later by the simultaneous use of different means of representation. The 1945 volume of György Gombosi, Új magyar rajzmüvészet [New Hungarian Drawing] tried to select reproductions of all types of Czóbel’s graphic works from the strong, linear composition (Portrait of Károly Kernstok) to the pastel like (Female Half Nude from the Left Side), then the drawings emphasizing the model’s lyric personality (Girl Head) and those simultaneously linear and using patches (Reclining Woman), or the works compiling niggling, tiny lines (Flower in Vase). The need for systematization is inevitably useful for looking over the rich material of graphic works, and Gombosi’s classification, valid for the works made till the 55 Horváth (op.cit. in note 23), p 19. 56 The chalk drawing is in the collection of the Bálint Balassa Museum, Esztergom. The photo of the lithograph is published in Kratochwill (op. cit. in note 42), p 29. author’s early tragic death in 1945, does hardly need any major corrections, since no dramatic turn happened in the style of Czóbel, only in his last period did the new drawing method of using a few, simple lines appeared. Gombosi finally reached the conclusion, that “Béla Czóbel is a real master of picturesque drawing. His later technique turns to be exceedingly complicated compared to the linear character 122 CZÓBEL, A FRENCH HUNGARIAN PAINTER
