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

FROM PARIS TO NAGYBÁNYA - ZOLTÁN ROCKENBAUER: The Fauves by the Danube, or Could Nyergesújfalu Have Been Hungary's Collioure?

Béla Czóbel: Courtyard in Nyergesújfalu, cca. 1907. Cat. No. 110. Dezső Czigány: Village, cca. 1908. Cat. No. 93. sometimes around 1910, in the company of several other painters." "I was not working at Nyerges," he added.

3 Dezső Orbán, accompanied by his friend Pál Relie, a journalist who watched over the birth of the Nyolcak, himself was among Kernstok's visitors, but he recalled frequent visits to the wine cellar, rather than any work sessions.

4 Although Dezső Czigány is said to have spent several summers there, even renting a room at Nyerges, his fellow painters made no mention of ever seeing him there.

5 The sculptor Márk Vedres, an "external member" of the future Nyolcak who had hung out with Márffy in Florence already in the winter of 1906,

6 could also have been only a lone visitor from Pest: "Károly Kernstok was like a brother to me; I often lodged at his villa in Nyergesújfalu in the early years of the century. The people who turned up in his home were the village baker, the physician, farmers and miners. I do not recall meeting public figures or artists at his place."

7 The existence, or even the plan, of a lively artists' colony similar to the one established at Nagybánya is not confirmed by the recollections of Czóbel and others. Even in Czóbel's case, it appears that nobody, apart from his host, joined in his artistic experiments at Nyerges. Kernstok wrote the following: "when my friend Béla Czóbel