Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - ORSOLYA RADVÁNYI: The First Heyday of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: Gábor Térey (1864-1927) Memorial Exhibition
12 INTERIOR VIEW OH THE EXHIBITION The exhibition did not attempt to present Térey's entire œuvre. The objective was only to reveal and display some of the more important aspects of his manifold activities between 1896 and 1926 as the chief curator of the Old Masters' Gallery: his purchases, and his scholarly contributions, which have survived in manuscript or in book format, as well as some of his most important acquisitions selected from the several hundred, which were also especially restored for this occasion. His professional activity also included the acquisition of nineteenth-century and contemporary European and Hungarian paintings, statues and graphic w r orks, the study and more thorough examination of which was not part of our agenda on this occasion. Due to Gábor Térey's systematic activities collecting art, the Old Masters' Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, was enriched by 350 works. The bulk of his acquisitions have been continuously on display in the permanent exhibition for eighty to one hundred years. Térey's purchases filled the gaps in the collection of the Old Masters' Gallery, he aimed at properly representing all the schools and genres of painting. The decade preceding World War I, when Térey managed to buy works from the most important European private collections, was a fortuitous period for collecting. Dutch genre- landscape- and still life painting enjoyed
