Passuth Krisztina – Szücs György – Gosztonyi Ferenc szerk.: Hungarian Fauves from Paris to Nagybánya 1904–1914 (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2006/1)

HUNGARIAN FAUVES CASE STUDIES - GERGELY BARKI: Róbert Berény, the "Apprenti Fauve"

34. Róbert Berény: Self-portrait in Top Hat, 1907 Cat. No. 36. 35. Robert Berény: Ball Players, 1907-1908 Cat. No. 15. pointing out that Matisse painted his identically entitled composition featuring large figures roughly during the same period.

43 It is possible that Berény, too, considered the cartoon Ball Players, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, as a sketch for a larger composition.

44 (Fig. 36) important years in the history of Fauvism, which was at the same time also the most critical. In sharp contrast with the prolific output of the previous years, we know only a few of his drawings dated from 1908. Berény may have seen Matisse's works at the Salon exhibitions, as well as in Gertrude Stein's atelier on Rue de Fleurus, in art dealers' shops and even in Matisse's own studio. Although he was not among Matisse's students officially, along with several of his Hungarian colleagues, he could have visited Académie Matisse, which opened in January 1908.

45 Related to Berény, we have very little information dating from 1908, one of the most As the works he produced in the following year (1909) can demonstrate, he gradually turned his back on Fauvism, attaching less and less importance to the dynamism of the Fauves' spontaneous mode of painting. At that time, Cézanne came to take the number one spot in the artist's eye. That was also the time of his introduction to the Hungarian public. He took part in the traveling exhibition of MIÉNK, organized by György Bölöni in the summer of 1909, when he showed 36. The cover page of the comic paper Fidibusz, April, 1911. The caption at the bottom: The Nyolcak and their Audience 38. Róbert Berény: Nude Boy with Barbell, 1907. Cat. No. 29. 37. A postcard addressed to István Réti, featuring caricatures of the paintings shown at the 1911 exhibition of Nyolcak