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Oil on rough canvas 80.5 x 91.5 cm, framed. Signed 'vaszary J.' lower left. - Good original condition. Partly with slight craqueleur. We would like to thank Mariann Gergely, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, for her kind information confirming the authenticity. Provenance Formerly private collection, Hungary; private possession, Hungary Exhibition Warsaw 1927 (Towarzisztvo Zacheny Sztuk Pieknich) Wystawa Sztuki Wegierskiej, without cat.; Budapest 1927 (Nemszeti Szalon (National Salon) with label on verso, no. 309); Venice 1928, exhibition of Hungarian artists (XVI. exhibition), no. 108 (verso on the stretcher with stamp); Vienna 1928 (Künstlerbund Hagen), Ausstellung des Vereins Neuer Künstler ÚME), cat. no. 241; Genua 1929 (Palazzo Rosso), I. Esposizione d'Arte Ungherese (ÚME), cat. no. 178 (verso on the stretcher with label and round stamp "UME 1925"); Budapest 1998 (Polgár Gallery), Janos Vaszary Memorial Exhibition, cat. no. 21. Literature Béla Déry, Muveszeti kiallitasok külföldön az 1927 évben. Budapest 1928, n.p.; Árpád Polgár (pub.), Polgár 50, Budapest 2006, p.174, with colour illus. p. 173. Since the 1920s the painter and graphic artist János Vaszary, recipient of numerous awards, has been counted among the most important representatives of modern Hungarian art in Europe. Vaszary initially studied at the art academies in Budapest and Munich and then at Paris's Académie Julian from 1889 to 1893. His work reflects the influence of Puvis de Chavannes above all, but also that of the Fauves, Dufy and Matisse and - in relation to the sketch-like style of drawing - van Dongen. This painting shows a scene from Leo Fall's operetta "Madame Pompadour", which premiered in Berlin in 1922. Scenes from the Parisian nightlife, depictions of concerts or the circus, are certainly common within Vaszary's oeuvre. Like the theatrical work, our painting is staged in a manner that is elegant, animated, gallant and evinces satirical wit. The lightness of its French theatrical models can also be found here. Back in Budapest, Vaszary was active in cultural politics. He was among the founders of "KÚT" (New Society of Visual Artists); however, he left it again in 1927 in order to join the ÚME (Association of New Artists), which had been founded in 1925 and whose president he became in 1927. The painting features the stamp of this artists' association. In 1928 Vaszary assembled and organised the Hungarian material for the 16th Venice Biennale. A sticker on the reverse side proves that the painting "Pompadour" was also presented there. A second, very similar version of the painting "Pompadour" exists in a smaller format (58 x 75 cm, oil on canvas, 1927, cf. Kieselbach Galeria, 26th auction, Budapest 12 Oct 2004, cat. no. 55; see also Mariann Gergely, East and West: János Vaszary's Art in the Twenties and Thirties, in: exh. cat. János Vaszary, Budapest 2007/2008 (Magyar Nemzeti Galeria), p. 242. with colour illus.). According to kind information provided by Mariann Gergely, there is not doubt that it was our larger version which was exhibited in the Palazzo Rosso of Genoa in 1929.