Gosztonyi Ferenc - Király Erzsébet - Szücs György szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 2002-2004. 24/9 (MNG Budapest, 2005)

THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY IN 2002-2004

• A modell. Női akt a 19. századi magyar művészetben / The Model. Female Nude Imagery in 19th-century Hungarian Art. 14 October-6 February 2005. Curator: Györgyi Imre • »Kinyilatkoztatas«. Szobotka Imre kubista korszaka 1912-1922. (»The Tidings Brought to Mary«. Imre Szobotka's Cubist Period 1912-1922). 25 May-24 October. Curators: György Szűcs, Ferenc Zsákovics • Gedő Ilka (1921-1985) festőművész kiállítása (Exhibition of Ilka Gedő). 18 November-31 March 2005. Curator: Mariann Kolozsváry • Modern magyar rajzok 1900-1945. Válogatás Gombosi György művészettörténész gyűjteményéből (Modern Hungarian Drawings 1900-1945. Selection from the collection of art historian György Gombosi). 11 November-24 April 2005. Curator: Ferenc Zsákovics THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY ABROAD • Mednyánszky László grafikái (The graphic works of László Mednyánszky). Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna. 6-27 October. Curator: Orsolya Hessky • Árkádia tájain. Neoklasszicizmus a húszas évek magyar művészetében / Krajinou Árkádie. Neoklasicizmus V madarskom vytvarnom umení dvadsiatych rokov 20. storocia. Pozsonyi Városi Galéria / Galéria mesta Bratislavy. 21 October-5 December 2005. Curator: András Zwickl • Ladislav Mednyánszky 1852-1919. Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava. 29 April-31 August. Curator: Zsuzsanna Bakó PARTICIPATION OF THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY IN EXHIBITIONS ABROAD • László Mednyánszky 1852-1919. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna " L'Art Nouveau: La Maison Bing. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Villa Stuck, Munich - CaixaForum, Barcelona - Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris • Gli impressionisti e la neve. La Francia e l'Europa. Palazzina délia Promotrice délie Belle Arti, Torino • A Brush with Grandeur. Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937). Christie's, London • New Frontiers. Art from new EU member states. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin • Women at the Gödöllő Artists' Colony. Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow, 2004 • Moi! Autoportraits du XXéme siècle. Musée du Luxemburg, Paris - Galleria Uffizi, Florence ACCESSION OF THE COLLECTIONS 2002 In this year valuable acquisitions of the Department of Painting were two biedermeier portraits (both painted in 1822) by János Donát and an early work by Mihály Munkácsy, The portrait of merchant György Kerstinger (1863-64). Several paintings came into the collection as gifts e.g. a Self-Portrait of Vilmos Aba-Novák (ca. 1920) by the daughter of the painter, and another Self-Portrait of József Nemes Lampért (1912) by the son of art historian Frederick Antal. The Department of Prints and Drawings acquired an important engraving (after 1920) of Farkas Molnár and 14 drawings of Álmos Jaschik donated by the expert of the artist Ottó Mezei. A large collection was abtained from the estate of the „bauhausler" Andor Weininger with the help of a subsidity offered by the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage. The Department of Sculpture purchased the Portrait of Madame Ödön Paizs (ca. 1930) by László Mészáros. The Contemporary Collection acquired a few very important „classical" artwoks by Ákos Birkás (OT, 3.9P-S, 1999), István Nádler (M.M. Nr. 2-3., 2001), László Lakner (Bone, 1968) and by the representatives of the new generation e.g. Levente Baranyay (Biogeometry 6-7., 2002) and a photo série by Attila Csörgő, a documentation for the intallation (Hemisphere, 1996) exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 1999. Several works came into the collection from the 21th Biennial of Graphics in Miskolc: The Annunciation a-b (Zsolt Koroknai, 2001), Polyphony I (Éva Sebők, 2002), Vision of the Future 1-3 (István Kalmár-István Sinkó, 2002). 2003 The Old Hungarian Collection exchanged with the Museum of Fine Arts an Elizabetta Sirani's Baroque picture (Madonna with Child and St. John) for Jean Pierre Sauvage: Portrait of Count Károly Batthyány (1748). The Department of Painting purchased the famous picture by József Borsos, Emir of Lebanon (1843) which will be exhibited in the permanent exhibition after its restoration. Among the new acquisitions of the Department of Sculpture was an unknown work by Gyula Murányi (Shot Putter, 1910s) which probably came from the modern collection of the lawyer Virgil Ciaclan who lived in Oradea and Budapest. 26 works were donated to the collection of the Medal Department by contemporary artists (Mária Lugossy, József Palotás, Éva Varga, András E. Tornay). The Contemporary Collection acquired Actresses (1964) by Tibor Csernus and Book-hatchet (1970-2003) by