Nagy Ildikó szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 1992-1996 (MNG Budapest, 1998)

ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1991-1996

COLLECTION OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES COLLECTION OF PAINTING 1991 Altogether 23 items were added, of which 10 were transferred from the National Museum, 8 were gifts, 1 exchanged, 4 bought. The most important works include: Sándor Wagner: Cart and seven in Debrecen, c. 1880, oil on canvas, 100.5 x 200 cm. Inv.no.: 91.18. Seven works are included in the collection by the painter, all prior to 1880. The picture at issue indicates a stylistic change. From 1874, the painter withdrew from romanticism and came closer to plein air, in this picture to naturalism. Dezső Komis s : View in Szentendre. 1933, oil on canvas, 35.3 x 50.3 cm. Inv.no.: 91.23; A mere six works from the artist's period prior to 1945 can be found in our department. The purchased work represents the painter's earliest, constructivist period. Sándor Basilides: Fishermen. 1943, oil on canvas, 120.5 x 150.4 cm. Inv.no.: 91.17. There were merely 5 works by the artist in the collection; the purchased work is a good example of the painter's neo-classicist style. 1992 The accruement was 14 items, 7 of them gifts, 7 purchases. The main works: János Donath: Orpheus in Hades. 1819; oil on canvas, 150 x 135 cm. Inv.no.: 92.12. The picture represents one of the most typical genres of neo-classicism, the mythological theme. Earlier it was believed lost. Mihály Kovács: Sleeping child. 1850; oil on canvas, 49 x 60 cm. Inv.no.: 92.9. Jenő Paizs Goebel: Saint Sebastian (Self-portrait). 1927; oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. Inv.no.: 92.3. It fills a gap in representing the artist and his period of the 1920s. Akos Ecsődi: Lady with a string of pearls. Oil on canvas, 90 x 65 cm. Inv.no.: 92.13; The Fates, 1933, oil on canvas, 59.4 x 52.5 cm. Inv.no.: 92.14; The southern railway bridge in Budapest, 1932. Oil on canvas, 50.4 x 65.6 cm. Inv.no.: 92.15. Earlier no picture was preserved in the collection by the artist. 1993 The increment is 32 pieces, 11 of them gifts. We inventoried 17 works by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka upon the order of the Ministry of Culture. 4 items were bought. Outstanding purchases: András Marko: Mountainous landscape, around 1870. Oil on canvas, 24 x 40.5 cm. Inv.no.: 93.33. Very few pictures can be found in the collection by the children of Károly Marko the Elder. András Marko was a romantic. Béla Kádár: Composition, the 1940s. Tempera on paper, 59.5 x 88.5 cm. Inv.no.: 93.14. The owner named the title of the picture as The Magi, with requisites of the Jewish religion. 1994 23 new art objects, 17 of them donated. Outstanding is the gift of Lajos Fruchter, including such masterpieces as István Szőnyi: Spring; Imre Szobotka: Food stall at a fair (Nagybánya); József Rippl-Rónai: My dear mother taken ill. 1 pieces was transferred, 5 bought. Main purchases: Károly Lötz: Sketch for the fresco of the Opera House, 1882-84. Oil on canvas, 25 x 44 cm. Inv.no.: 94.1

. Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka: Italian town. Oil on canvas, 57 x 64 cm. Inv.no.: 94.2. As the life work of Csontváry is meagre, the acquisition of any piece is a great gain of the collection. Károly Ferenczy: In front of posters, early 1890s. Oil on canvas, 90 x 90.5 cm. Inv.no.: 94.6. In the lifework of the artist, this work filled a so-far depressing gap. Tibor Boromisza: Houses along the stream, 1908. Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm. Inv.no.: 94.6; The picture is a stopgap in the collection. 1995 Increment: 8 items. Gifts: 4, transfer upon ministerial order: 1 item, purchase: 3. Main purchases: István Szőnyi: Umbrellas, 1939. Oil on canvas,