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

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - MARIANNA DAGI: Highlighted Works of Art: Chamber Exhibitions Organized by the Collection of Classical Antiquities

The Rupf Collection, based on the masters of international avant-garde, was made complete by adding some playful, constructivist works by the abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was a fellow teacher of Klee's at the Bauhaus. The paintings and graphic works of the exhibition were complemented with some sculptures, (including the sculptures of the two collectors placed at the entrance) and were arranged to create an impressive and harmonious effect. The spatial articulation of the exhibition interior designed by the Narmer Architecture Studio reflected the original placing of the delicate works of art. The scholarly catalogue accompanying the exhibition contains studies exploring the exciting life of the Rupf couple in regard to their relationship with Kahnweiler, Klee and Kandinsky. The catalogue's appendix provides an overview of art collection in Eastern Europe, the traditions of which are as old as those in Switzerland, and focuses on its social background and main players. The basic research that was conducted on the latter subject might well inspire international conferences and exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts and serve as an example for Hungarians of today: how was the continuity in presenting the results of Modernism maintained in the past? Márton Orosz HIGHLIGHTED WORKS OF ART CHAMBER EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED BY THE COLLECTION OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES This series of small exhibitions on highlighted works from the Collection of Classical Antiquities, now in its fourth year, continued with a range of new acquisitions and discoveries. Each of the lour seasonal exhibitions focused on a different geographical region and culture of the ancient Mediterranean. A marble relief purchased by the Collection in 2006, which at first sight appears to depict the meeting ol a rider and a man on foot at the edge of a forest, probably originated in one of the Greek sculptural workshops in the Black Sea region or Asia Minor. The main figure of the framed composition is clearly the rider on horseback. The cloaked man in the left-hand corner