Hungarian painter József Rippl-Rónai's portrait of Lajos Kunffy sold for HUF 65 million, while among his contemporaries, Ilona Keserü's painting Landscape fetched the highest price, HUF 40 million, at the Virág Judit Gallery winter auction. According to the gallery's announcement on Tuesday, nearly 200 items went under the hammer at Monday evening's auction, including masterpieces […]
A painting by József Rippl-Rónai that has not been seen for almost eighty years is the most valuable piece at this year's Art and Antique Budapest exhibition and fair, which starts on Thursday and will be hosted by the Bálna events center in Budapest. The painting, titled 'Szent Pál Fair', was painted in 1912 by […]
József Rippl-Rónai's painting ‘The Garden of the Castle of Geszt’ broke the painter's lifetime record by hitting HUF 300 million at the winter auction of the Judit Virág Gallery in Budapest Monday evening. With this sum, the painting, painted in 1912, took second place in the Hungarian auction records after Tivadar Csontváry-Kosztka's ‘Mysterious Island’. Rippl-Rónai's […]
