Bidspirit auction | Istvan Szonyi 'Beach Landscape' Oil

Istvan Szonyi 'Beach Landscape' Oil on Canvas - Signed and dated lower right.  Date: 1929   Image: 20” x 23 1/2”  Frame: 27 1/2” x 31 1/4”   Condition: Minor craquelure in spots throughout the painting. Loss to the frame. Overall, the painting is in good condition.    Artist Bio: Istvan Szonyi (1894–1960) spent the summer of 1914 as a pupil of Karoly Ferenczy at the Nagybanya artists' colony, the formative influence on his work. He moved to Zebegeny on the Danube Bend in 1924 and the river, hillsides and village became his lifelong subject; his house there drew Vilmos Aba-Novak and the photographer Andre Kertesz. In the 1930s he belonged to the Gresham Circle in Budapest, and his softened, lyrical Neo-Impressionism became foundational to what is called the post-Nagybanya tendency — a deliberate rejection of avant-garde strategies in favor of a pantheistic bond between figure and landscape. He was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1937 and was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1984.