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

311 Hatvani-kastély enteriőr | Interior in the Castle of Hatvan 11930-as évek 11930s

At the end of 1909, Kernstok and two of his friends, Dezső Orbán and Dezső Czigány found that the time had come to leave MIÉNK, so that they could present the latest endeavours in their purity, without the influence of the Circle’s more conservative members. The artists they invited to join were Bertalan Pór, Lajos Tihanyi, Ödön Márffy, who was working in Italy at the time, RóbertBerény, who was in Paris, and Czóbel. The initiative became the core of The Eight. New Paintings, the first exhibition of the still unnamed group in late December 1909 astonished the local scene. For a few years. The Eight counted as the vanguard of Hungarian modernism - in which Czóbel played an insignificant part. He was only featured, with three works, at the first joint display (New Paintings, Könyves Kálmán Szalon), where he did not even appear in person.

He sent no works to the next major exhibition of The Eight in 1911, and at the time of the opening he was busy settling with his family in Montmorency, near Paris. Nor was he featured at the last, 1912 exhibition of the group, and though in 1913 he again painted and drew at Kernstok’s estate, which works he would exhibited at Művészház, he isolated himself from the Hungarian scene for a long time.

When the First World War broke out, he had to leave France. His studio was seized, with all the works in it; the latter were auctioned off in 1921. As a consequence, almost the entire output of a period (1910-1914) was lost for the researchers of his oeuvre.

33 I Mária a kandalló mellett | Mária next to the Fireplace 11943

321 Mária a karosszékben | Mária in the Armchair 11943