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ISTVÁN NÉMETH: Vanishing Hopes: The Last Will of Marcell Nemes - The Museum of Fine Arts' Acquisitions from the Nemes Estate

Bachrach, the director of Dresdner Bank, Arthur Rehfeld and Josef Riva representing the Darmstädter Bank, Dr. Aurél Egry, court councillor and member of the Upper House of Parliament acting as president of the committee (Budapest), as well as Dr. Gyula Török, a lawyer and Marcell Nemes's brother-in-law and legal representative (Budapest). The committee was assisted in carrying out its work by four art experts (who were also mentioned by name in the will): Max. J. Friedländer, the director of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin, A. S. Drey, a Munich art dealer, Dr. Simon Meiler and Elek Petrovics. 17 See file no. 89/1931 in the archives of the Museum of Fine Arts. 18 Sammlung Marczell von Nemes. Gemälde, Textilien, Skulpturen, Kunstgewerbe. Versteigerung im Auftrage der Testamentsvollstrecker des Nachlasses, Munich, 16-19 June, 1931, Hugo Heining, Munich 1931. 19 There are almost one hundred newspaper article cuttings related to Marcell Nemes among the material in the Munich Stadtarchiv, the majority of which are various reports from German daily newspapers on the auction of the estate held in Munich in 1931. Close to half a dozen articles by Flubert Wilm were published in the columns of Münchner Neueste Nachrichten. :o Sammlung Marczell von Nemes. 2. Abteilung. Gemälde, Skulpturen, Textilien Kunstgewerbe und Möbel, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 2 November, 1933. :i The correspondence related to this can be found under nos. 590/1934 and 623/1934 in the archives of the Museum of Fine Arts. 22 Transferred from wood to canvas, 112x74 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, inv. no. 6426. For the correspondence with the Munich executors in connection to the release of the picture in December 1934, see I/CG 301 Erforderte Gutachten über Gemälde, Schätzungen 1934-1935 (documents under no. 1111/32) in the Berlin SMB Zentralarchiv. 23 The put-up price for the picture in question by Colijn de Coter as the only old foreign painting at the second auction held in April 1934 in Budapest of Marcell Nemes's Hungarian picture collection was 5,000 pengős. See Jánoshalmi Nemes Marcell magyar képgyűjteménye, II. Az Ernst-Múzeum Aukciói XLIX [The Hungarian picture collection of Jánoshalmi Marcell Nemes II. Auctions at the Ernst Museum XLIX], Budapest, 23 April, 1934, no. 140. 24 In connection with the matter see files no. 493/1932 and 222/1933 in the archives of the Museum of Fine Arts. 25 See Az Országos Szépművészeti Múzeum Evkönyvei [Almanacs of the National Museum of Fine Arts] VII (1931-1934), Budapest 1935, 179. 26 Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no. 396.B.