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
Béla Lázár. Since the incomplete letter was acquired by the Hungarian Art Archives (then still located within the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts) at the same time as the other seven, it is reasonable to assume that this, too, had been addressed to Béla Lázár. 29 Nemzeti Szalon, May 1907, Spring Exhibition, Gauguin, Cézanne. About the exhibition and its reception in Hungary see: Boros, Judit, '"Ez az ember lett a művészet választóvize...' Thorma János és az 1907-es Gauguin-kiállítás" ["This man became the touchstone of art..." János Thorma and the Gauguin exhibition in 1907], in: Thorma János 1870-1937, Kiskunhalas, Thorma János Múzeum, Halasi Múzeum Alapítvány, 2003, 125-136. 30 Nude (Nude Reclining), oil on canvas, 91 x 138 cm, 6'" Auction of Mű-Terem Galéria, December, 2000, 107. 31 Société du Salon d'Automne: Catalogue de Peinture, Dessin, Sculptur, Gravure, Architecture et Arts Décoratifs exposés au Grand Palais des ChampsElysées: 1387-1392. Étude. 32 Perlrott's letter to István Réti, see Note 27. 33 Académie Matisse: Henri Matisse and his Nordic & American Pupils, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, October 17 - November 17, 2001. 34 See the memoirs of the former students: op. cit. (Note 33) 35 Matisse 1908. 36 Presumably its former owner, Andor Dobai Székely, wrote in pencil the comment next to item 1641 in the catalogue of the 1908 Salon d'Automne, currently held at the library of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, which revealed that the artwork in question depicted red nudes outdoors. I would like to take this opportunity to thank István Popovics for the information he provided me about the original owner of the catalogue. 37 "The Paradise scene of Perlrott Csaba is not so much perlrot, as it is rübenrot kitsch, which lacks even the most basic elements of any drawing skills or sense of colours." (Kezdi) [László Kézdi-Kovács], "A MIÉNK új kiállítása" [The New Exhibition of MIÉNK], Pesti Hírlap, 14 February 1909, 9-10. 38Bölöni, György, "Kernstok Károly és társai" [Károly Kernstok and His Company], Arad és vidéke, 9 July 1909, reprinted in: Bölöni 1967, 108-111. 39 See Note 37. 40 Female Nude, around 1910, oil on canvas board, 52 x 41 cm, signed bottom right: Perlót Cs. faded date underneath: 1910(?), Kaposvár, Rippl-Rónai Múzeum, Inv. No.: 55.403. 41 Harlequin and Models, around 1910, oil on canvas, 89 x 115 cm, signed bottom right: Perlrott Csaba V, private collection, reproduced in: Kieselbach 2003, 444. 42 Models (Gypsy Models), 1916, oil on wooden board, 100 x 119 cm, signed bottom left: Perlrott Csaba V, MNG, Inv. No.: FK 10.159. 43 In his various recollections and autobiographies, he gives a different date every time, and also recalls the names of the exhibition venues differently. He exhibited in a place called Sago (or Sagon?) on rue Lafitte, in Galerie Asnur (or Aschmur) on boulevard Raspail, and in Berthe Weill's gallery on rue Victor Massé. See Perlrott 1914, Perlrott 1929, Perlrott 1956. 44 MIÉNK I, 1908, Perlroth [sic!]-Csaba Vilmos: 185. Stilllife with Boy; MIÉNK II, 1909, Perlrott Csaba Vilmos: 172, Study. 45 Boys Bathing, around 1911, oil on canvas, 77,5 x 91 cm, not signed, JPM Pécs, Inv. No.: 76.259. 46 On the history of the artists' colony at Kecskemét see: Sümegi, György, A Kecskeméti művésztelep és alkotóház [Artists' Colony and Studio at Kecskemét], Budapest, Új Művészet Kiadó, no date [1996], 47 Perlrott 1914. 48 Vilmos Perlrott Csaba's letter [to Béla Lázár], 1911, Madrid, MNG Archives, 4579/1974/e. 49 Eight letters of Vilmos Perlrott Csaba. With the exception of two postcards, the letters do not show the addressee —the envelope has been lost —but all the signs suggest that they were transferred to the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts from Béla Lázár's bequest marked with the same inventory number. Today at MNG Archives, 4579/1947/a-h. 50 MNG Archives, 4579/1947/e. 51 Sümegi, op. cit. (Note 46), 26. 52 Calvary, 1912, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, not signed, Kecskeméti Képtár, Kecskemét, Inv. No.: 68.191. First shown at the Spring Exhibition of OMKT in 1912 with the title Detail of a Church from Kecskemét, Cat. 710, reproduced in the catalogue. 53 Nagybánya Jubilee Exhibition, 1912. Perlrott exhibited the following pictures: Klastromrét, Portrait of Mr. Z.S., Mother with Child, Winter Landscape, Still-life, Two Women from Profile, Self-portrait, Still-life, Gypsies in the Granary. 54 Vilmos Perlrott Csaba's letter [to Béla Lázár], Madrid, 19 January, 1911, MNG Archives, 4579/1974/e. 55 Perlrott 1914. 56 After the fall of the Council Republic, he did not feel secure in Hungary and together with his wife, Margit Gráber, he emigrated in late 1919. Benedek, op. cit. (Note 1), 26.
