Gulyás Katalin et al. (szerk.): Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 22. (Szolnok, 2013)

Művészettörténet - Gurzó K. Enikő: Lehel Ferenc és Csontváry lappangó képei

TISICUM XXII. - MŰVÉSZETTÖRTÉNET

4. Folyóiratok DÉVÉNYI Iván

1973. Kortársak levelei Csontvázról. In: Jelenkor 1973/11.967-969. RABINOVSZKY Máriusz

1931. Csontváz In: Új Szín 1931/1.39-44.

5. Lexikonok

BENEDEK Marcell (szerk.)

1965. Magyar irodalmi lexikon II. L-R. Budapest.

6. Elektronikus források

artportal.hu

axioart.com

www.corbisimages.com

Elektronikus Periodika Archívum és Adatbázis: epa.oszk.hu Első Magyar Festményszakértő Iroda: biralat.hu/tanulmanyok/ Kieselbach Galéria és Aukciósház online: www.kieselbach.hu Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár: mek.oszk.hu Múzeum Antikvárium online: muzeumantikvarium.hu

Enikő Gurzó K.

The Lost Painting: „Passion”

The article entitled „Francis Lehel and hidden Csontváz paintings” is a compelling true stoz of mystez and serendipity. In the 20th centuz, the renowned, yet troubled, Hungarian Post-Impressionist and Expressionist artist, Tivadar Csontváz-Kosztka, released „Passion”, a celebrated masterpiece of its time. Some time later, it vanished without a trace (his art works, deceased at 66, were left behind in his studio in Budapest; his heirs offered the large-sized compositions on sale for nearby carriers, thinking the excellent quality canvasses could be used as car covers). For the next hundred years, art historians and art aficionados tried to locate Csontváz’s famous painting(s). Maria Lehel and his father, Francis, deftly takes the reader on this journey of discovez, from Budapest to Italy.

The artist, Tivadar Csontváz-Kosztka, was a master of the Hungarian Post-lmpresionism. Fie was a genius, a revolutionaz painter, and a man beset by personal demons. One hundred years ago, he moving from one countz to another, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. Fie rose from obscurity to fame, but success didn’t alter his immoderate temperament. Fie died young, alone, in poverty, isolation, and under strange circumstances.

Csontváz scholars estimate that between 122 and 130 of his works are in existence today (his creative period was vez short, from about 1890->- 1909). Many others - no one knows the precise number - have been lost to time. Somewhere, surely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish church, or hanging above a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy.

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