Barki Gergely - Gulyás Gábor: Újragondolt Czóbel. A szentendrei Czóbel Múzeum állandó kiállítása (Szentendre, 2016)

291 Dombos táj | Hilly Landscape 11925 körül | around 1925

The most memorable of these was probably the 1907 Salon des Indépendants, where across Matisse’s famous Blue Nude hung Czóbel’s now lost Lying Female Nude, which even Gertrud Stein makes mention of in her autobiography.

It was also thanks to the Steins that he met American journalist Gelett Burgess, who in the spring of 1908 interviewed the eight most radical painters of Paris, Czóbel among them. The article illustrated his activity with works that cast him in the forefront of French modernism. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of these and dozens of his other Fauvist pieces, including eight (!) nudes, is unknown, which is one of the sorest losses in the history of modern Hungarian painting.

Upon the invitation of fellow painter Károly Kernstok, in 1907 he spent a long holiday in Nyergesújfalu, from the spring until the autumn. He was never to return to Nagybánya, even though he was invited to teach there the same summer. Czóbel had a great influence on his older colleague already in Paris, and as in Nagybánya, so in Nyergesújfalu he initiated a modernist fermentation, which Ödön Márffy was the first to join a year later, and which was of key

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