Passuth Krisztina – Szücs György – Gosztonyi Ferenc szerk.: Hungarian Fauves from Paris to Nagybánya 1904–1914 (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2006/1)

HUNGARIAN FAUVES CASE STUDIES - JUDIT BOROS: The Synthesizer. Vilmos Perlrott Csaba's Painting

Vilmos Perlrott Csaba: Sunlit Yard in Nagybánya, 1907. Cat. No. 199. trator's visit to Nagybánya, Perlrott exhibited Gypsies In the Granary, a portrait (it may have been Adolf Agricola's portrait) and the study of a head

16 among approximately 100 compositions by other painters. The most interesting among Perlrott's early works, Clothes Drying, revealed as early as 1905 that young painter was not entirely indifferent to the anti-Naturalist overtures mediated by Czóbel, who had just come back from Paris to Nagybánya. 1907-1910: Paris (Matisse academy) - Nagybánya Perlrott arrived in Paris on December 4, 1906.

17 He had spent almost the entire year of 1906 in Nagybánya. Throughout the spring he worked with Béla Iványi-Grünwald

18 in the artists' colony, eagerly waiting for a favourable reply to the application he had submitted for a government grant.

19 He finally received a positive answer in the summer,

20 although he left for Paris only at the end of the year. Initially, he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Julian Academy, before switching to Steinlen's drawing course at Académie de la Grande-Chaumière.

21 In the autumn of 1907 he worked at Académie Colarossi,

22 although the possibility cannot be excluded that he also frequented several private schools parallel in the period. It is conceivable that he visited the salon of Leo and Gertrude Stein as early as December 1906, where he made the acquaintance of Henri Matisse and André Derain

21 first, and of Georges Braque a little later. However, it is rather unlikely that Perlrott was in regular contact with these artists before the autumn of 1907, as the Hungarian artist spent the whole time between April and September 1907 in Nagybánya.