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

Mimi Kratochwill: Béla Czóbel's mature period, 1925-1976

235. BÉLA CZÓBEL: PORTRAIT OF Mr PAQUEREAU, 1930. PRIVATE COLLECTION

In addition to painting and drawing, he found the time to write a profound study about József Rippl-Rónai (in 1930) for the periodical of his friend, Ferenc Lehel entitled Style. Czóbel had admired and respected Rippl-Rónai from his youth and paid his tribute to him in this way. As a secondary school boy, he had regularly visited Rippl-Rónai’sl900 Budapest exhibition on the way to his school on Barcsay Street. He accompanied his father, who visited the exhibition several times, just like he did in the case of many other prestigious exhibitions. Several predecessors in Czóbel’s family had also enjoyed successes in art (Mihály Zóbel, Lipót Zóbel and JózsefTyroler).

In 1926, the Exposition Coloniale Internationale was organized in Paris, to which Czóbel received an invitation and made a lithograph for the occasion, entitled Dividing Continents and Seas, depicting a young aboriginal girl standing in the middle third of the composition with her arms extended.

237. Czóbel in the garden of his studio on Rue Barrault, around 1930. Private collection

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236. Béla Czóbel: Portrait of Mr Paquereau, 1949. Budapest, Artchivum Art Historical Documentation Research Institute