Barki Gergely et al.: Czóbel. A French Hungarian painter - ArtMill publications 5. (Szentendre, 2014)
Gergely Barki: Czóbel from Paris to Paris 1903-1925
116. Béla Czóbel: Sitting Boy, 1920-1921. Szentendre, Ferenczy Museum painter to Otto Müller himself.88 The joint appearance took place soon after his arrival. Indeed, he was able to make a debut at the 1919 exhibition of the Freie Secession,89 of which he became a member.90 It was perhaps also due to this debut that he could mount an individual exhibition before the Berlin public in the spring of the following year.91 Paul Cassirer, whose gallery hosted the exhibition, remembered Czóbel from before. After all, the first comprehensive introduction to Hungarian art in Berlin came about at the beginning of 1910 in the Secession Halls formerly under his leadership, where Czóbel presented the two aforementioned still-lifes from 1908.92 Atthis individual exhibition organized at Cassirer’s, Czóbel displayed altogether 30 oil paintings, in addition to water colours and drawings, mainly parading works that he had created back in Holland.93 A portion of the paintings on display can be identified, and many of these are still available. Besides Boy with Ball, the copy of Ruisdael, The Parson of Bergen and the well-know Portrait of Roland Holst, also included in the display were the latter’s unknown profile portrait and an oil painting entitled Lesende am Fenster, which is probably identical to the previously mentioned painting Reading Woman (Plate 106) 89 KÁLLAI 1934 14. 91 At the exhibition which opened at Paul Cassirer’s in March 1920, he was featured together with his colleague, Christian Rohlfs. 92 Ausstellung Ungarische Maler, 5 February - 3 March 7970, catalogue. 93 Béla Czóbel: Gemälde / Aquarelle / Zeichnungen; Christian Rohlfs: Aquarelle / Holzschnitte. At Paul Cassirer’s, Berlin West, 35 Victoria St., March 1920 [exhibition catalogue]. 94 In Kállai’s list of Czóbel’s private collectors, he appeared as Eberfeld (Gebhard Collection). Kállai 1934, p 28. The Hungarian National Gallery (Inv. No. 21640/1982) holds a copy of the letter Czóbel wrote to Gebhard about the picture’s acquisition. CZOBEL FROM PARIS TO PARIS, 1903-1925 81
