4394 - János Czencz, Hungarian Girl

János Czencz, Hungarian Girl a young girl in peasant costume standing by a house wall, picking apples from a tree, shrouded in shadow; a beautiful, Impressionist depiction by the Hungarian genre painter, with broad brushstrokes, oil on canvas, signed and dated (1)926 in the lower right-hand corner, old, barely legible customs stamp on the reverse, slight signs of ageing, minor restorations, frame slightly damaged, inner dimensions 69 x 55 cm. Artist information: also known as Johannes Czencz, Hungarian painter (1885 Ostffyasszonyfa/Vas - 1960 Szekszárd), studied at the Budapest Academy from 1907 to 1919 under Aladár (Adolar) Edvi-Illés; László (Ladislaus) Hegedûs and Tivadar (Theodor) Zemplényi; exhibited from 1908 onwards; received various honours, including the Izidor Halmos Prize in 1913, the Rudits Prize in 1918, the bronze medal in Florence in 1920, the Benkö Prize in 1921, in 1935 he was exempted from having his works judged at exhibitions; he worked in Budapest until 1945; following the destruction of his house during the Second World War, he moved to his summer house in Báta in Tolna County; his works are held in the Hungarian National Gallery; he exhibited in Venice, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris and Vienna; source: Vollmer, Bénézit, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists*, AKL and information from the János Czencz Memorial Museum in Báta.