EDIT BASCH* (Budapest 1895 - Rome 1980) Young American oil/canvas 99 x 72 cm verso various exhibition labels ESTIMATE °€ 600 - € 1000 STARTING PRICE € 600 Edith Basch was a painter from Hungary who worked in Rome. She studied painting at the Nagybányai művésztelep Art Academy in Nagybánya with István Réti and Béla Iványi-Grünwald. In 1929 she went to Paris, where she became a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne and exhibited the two pictures Portrait de jeune fille and Nu at the Salon des Indépendants. From 1931 to 1933 she studied in Rome and then stayed there. She was last mentioned in 1961 when she took part in an exhibition in New York. She is buried in the Cimitero acattolico in Rome. Basch painted portraits in oil and landscapes in watercolour. Her portrait of Mihály Babits, painted in 1932, is owned by the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. Further artists and styles: Béni Ferenczy, Endre Vadász, Tibor Hetényi, Tibor Gergely, Brigitta Videky, Maria Lazar, Zsigmond Cselényi Walleshausen, Geza Boross, Ibolya Csengery, Gitta Gyenes, Ferenc Erdély, Ilona Bereczky, Olga Székely-Kovács, Maria Barta, Alice Endresz, Jenö Szabados, Gyula Derkovits, Jozsef Rippl-Ronay, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Victor Vasarely and Vilmos Aba-Novak PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.