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
Bronze, cast, and Metamorphosis I-IV, 1965. Bronze, cast - are the most significant ones. 1992 43 pieces. Of salience are: András Kiss Nagy: Spring Feast I-III, 1967. Bronze, cast; Ferenc Friedrich: Structural transformation (II), steel, chromium steel, tripartite. 1993 68 pieces. György Kiss: Bonds 1979, Sun disc 1976, Fragments 1982, bronze series, and János Kalmár: Samsara 1990, cast bronze tripartite medal are the main new pieces. 1994 22 pieces. Noteworthy are: Zoltán Bohus: Untyable Bond I-III, 1977, chromium steel, assembled series; Gábor Gáti: Etudes for voices I-IV, 1979, bronze, cast, assembled. 1995 15 pieces. Important works: Tamás E. Soltra: For a theatre company, 1993, from a bronze, lost-wax cast series, and József Palotás: Windy landscapes IIV, 1993, cast iron, fur, mixed technique. 1996 11 pieces. Of salience: turn-of-the-century works from the Szolláth collection (Gyula Tóth: School of Industrial Drawing - War Hospital, 1921, bronze, cast; Richárd Zutt: Female nude with shell, the 1910s, silver, cast), and 2 portraits by Béni Ferenczy that were cast. COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART 1991 New acquisitions amount to 209 pieces painting graphic art sculpture medal photo HNG purchase 6 1 Min. of Culture purchase 14 26 17 16 Gift 55 53 8 1 1 Exchange 2 77 79 26 27 High priority was given in the enlargement of the collection to supplying long needs for the exhibition "The Sixties". Gábor Attalai: Blue composition (1965, oil on canvas, 79 x 90 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 91.11), Béla Veszelszky: Landscape (1963, oil on canvas, 97.5 x 77 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 91.6), both purchased from the estate of Tibor Csiky. Gyula Konkoly: Softened egg (1968, canvas, mixed technique, 125 x 125 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 91.100); this object was included in the epoch-making exhibition of IPARTERV in 1968. Gyula Pauer: Pseudo cube (1970, aluminium, 13.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 91.3) carried the self-portrait of the artist in the lower corner of one side. The object documents the pseudo program of the artist. Of key importance is György Jovánovics: Liza Wiathruck: Holos Graphos, a series (1976, paper, photo. Inv.no.: MM.9 1.165.1 -12). Géza Samus estate is preserved by a board of family members and friends with the help of a foundation. The board offered the sculpture The fox going to visit the stork (1986, wood, bronze, 140 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 91.166) for buying. It was obtained with support from the Ministry of Culture. From among the works made at the turn of the decade, specially noteworthy are Zoltán ErmezeVs Double Corpus, cast of his own body to realize the rite of redemption by suffering (1990, plaster, 200 cm. Inv.no.: MM.91.138) and Gábor Roskó's painting Let's see what's news in the world (1989, plywood, acrylic, oil, 153 x 153 cm. Inv.no.: MM.91.171). 1992 Increment: 142 works painting graphic art sculpture HNG purchase 4 2 Min. of Cult, purch. 20 79 7 Gift 15 13 1 Exchange 1 40 92 10 The significance of Tamás Lossonczy's To Fly Falling (1942, canvas, oil 97 x 78 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 92.50) and In a storm (1944, oil on canvas, 53 x 63 cm. Inv.no.: MM.95.51) is underscored by the fact that very few works survive from this period of the artist owing to the devastations of the war. From among works displayed in the show "The Sixties" Krisztián Frey: Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis (1969, wood, oil, 52 x 70 cm. Inv.no.: MM.92.137), Endre Tóth: Without title {Green picture) (1969, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 80 cm. Inv.no.: MM. 92.111) and Without title (Colourful
