Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ISTVÁN NÉMETH: Vanishing Hopes: The Last Will of Marcell Nemes - The Museum of Fine Arts' Acquisitions from the Nemes Estate

5 JÓZSEF RIPPL-RÓNAI. UNCLE PIACSEK WITH DOLLS. BUDAPEST, HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY pensate for a missed opportunity in the past, when the Hungarian state did not purchase a single piece from Marcell Nemes's famous collection at its auction in Paris in 1913, even though it contained ten works by Courbet, six by Cézanne, four by Manet and two by Monet.

29 Another work from the Nemes Collection that entered the Museum of Fine Arts in parallel with the aforementioned picture by Colijn de Coter in 1934 was the Portrait of Augustus III King of Poland and Prince Elector of Saxony, which at the time of its purchase was still regarded as a work by Ádám Mányoki, however, scholars now suppose it was produced in the workshop of Louis de Silvestre.'

0 It is an interesting point that although the painting was part of the 1933 auction material of the Nemes estate in Munich, the museum did not acquire it from here but purchased it one year later at one of Lepke's auctions in Berlin. Although there was no reference to Marcell Nemes in the title of the 1934 auction in Berlin, ii one carefully looks