Modern magyar rajzok 1900–1945, Válogatás Gombosi György művészettörténész gyűjteményéből (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2004/5)
Lehel Mária: Brazíliai lány, 1937 January of 1941. The material of this exhibition served as the basis of his posthumously published comprehensive study entitled New Hungarian Drawing (1945), in which he discussed the theoretical issues of the genre, and assessed Hungarian aspirations in the art of drawing in the first half of the twentieth century. György Gombosi was not only a student of the work of artists, but, like a number of his contemporaries (Rudolf Bedő, Béla Radnai, Pál Szegi, Sándor Franki), he was also a collector of their drawings and sketches. Once numbering nearly 200 leaves, his collection included the works of countless artists from studies by József Rippl-Rónai to self-contained compositions by Lajos Vajda, which he acguired as friendly gifts, collectors' exchanges or purchases. The collection of drawings particularly features works by Fülöp Beck Ö, Róbert Berény, Gyula Derkovits, István Dési Huber, Gyula Hincz, Károly Kernstok, János Kmetty, Ferenc Medgyessy, Vilmos Perlrott Csaba, József Rippl-Rónai, and Béla Uitz; among the graphics by painters, a special group is made up of those by sculptors. The collection has examples of almost all techniques: drawings in pencil, ink, charcoal, or chalk; brush drawings using ink or walnut stain; and drawings washed with watercolours. Some of the works included are sketches, drafts or, in many cases, studies for major compositions; the collection, however, contains several compositions intended to be complete in themselves. In the course of 1943 and 1944, György Gombosi was drafted for forced-labour service several times, and was interned at the Jászberény labour camp and the Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania) Ghetto. It was from the latter that he was deported to Auschwitz, where, among numerous outstanding Hungarian intellectuals, he died as a victim of the Holocaust. The exhibition commemorating the 100 : ' anniversary of his birth and the 60 th anniversary of his tragic death offers the professional and wider public sixty select pieces in his collection of modern Hungarian drawings that covers the period between the beginning of the twentieth century and the Second World War, and is now in the keeping of his family. Medgyessy Ferenc: Varrogató nő, 1935
