Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 95. (Budapest, 2001)
The Museum of Fine Arts in 2000
Temporary exhibitions Works of Alberto Savinio (1891-1952) January 28 - March 5, 2000 Curator: Vilmos Tátrai The Institute of Italian Culture and the Italian Foreign Ministry staged an exhibition of 30 paintings by Italian painter, composer, writer and essayist Alberto Savinio in the Museum of Fine Arts from 20 January to the end of February. His painting is characterized by romantic surrealism, with emphasis on the revival of classical myths. Masterpieces reborn May 4 - June 4, 2000 Curator: Miklós Szentkirályi The exhibition supported by the cultural program of the Local Government of Zugló, afforded an insight into the restoration program and the restoration of the Museum. It involved master restorers Ilona Csík, Erika Verba, Ildikó Jeszeniczky, Edit Perjés, Judit Pócs and Ágnes Dicső. Romanelli's Madonna (fig. 94), a salient piece of the Esterházy collection, could not be shown publicly due to its poor state. The painting of a scene from the story of Hercules and Omphale recovered its original colour scheme almost completely, which was earlier hid and confirmed the assumption that the creator of the picture worked around Rome in the 17 th century. The restoration of the canvas showing the death of St Anthony the Hermit provided further evidence that the picture was painted by the Spanish Master Viladomat. Klee, Tanguy, Miró. Three faces of the landscape June 1 - July 30, 2000 Curators: Ferenc Tóth, Péter Újvári The material - 101 paintings and graphic works - put on display on June 1, were selected from the Swiss Galerie K collection by the gallery founder, Kazumasa Katsuta (fig. 98), and the director of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Rosa Maria Malet. The exhibition was staged by the Museum of Fine Arts in cooperation with Fondatió Miró of Barcelona and Vienna's Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig. Klee's, Tanguy 's and Miró 's pictures presented there were "land-scapes" reflecting the inner world of the artists in pictures of the outer world (fig. 99). Although the styles of the three artists are widely different, they are tied by a deep attraction to poetry which helped them create their own singular universes, populated similarly by the forms and signs of their individually typical pictorial idioms.
