Lot no. 88
Lajos (Ludwig)
TIHANYI (1885-1938)
École hongroise, Composition, 1928
Huile sur toile, signée et datée 928 en bas à gauche
54 x 81 cm - 211/4 x 319/10 in.
Composition 1928, Oil on canvas, signed and dated 928 lower left
Provenance :
Collection privée, Paris
Sourd et muet suite à une maladie infantile, Lajos TIHANYI aura toute sa vie des difficultés à s'exprimer. Selon lui, cet handicap l'obligera à observer et interpréter les gestes et les évènements de la vie avec une grande acuité, ce qui confère sans doute à ses oeuvres une expressivité exacerbée.
Il apprend le métier de photographe et suit des cours de dessin au Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers entre 1903 et 1905. De 1907 à 1910, il passe chaque été à la colonie des peintres de Nagybanja où il découvre les Néo-impressionnistes influencés par la peinture moderne française. Durant son premier séjour à Paris en 1908, il étudie Cézanne, Gauguin et Matisse et exécute alors plusieurs tableaux imprégnés de l'oeuvre de ces maîtres.
A Budapest, le peintre prend de plus en plus part à la vie artistique et participe aux expositions des Huit.
Il rejoint ensuite le groupe des Activistes dirigé par Lajos Kassak, personnage emblématique de cette époque, qui organisera sa première exposition privée dans cette ville. De 1918 à 1920, il vit à Vienne puis à Berlin et s'installe à Paris en 1923 où il réside jusqu'à la fin de ses jours à l'exception d'un voyage aux Etats-Unis. Ami de Brassaï et de Tristan Tzara, il réalise leur portrait. Les visages y apparaissent comme fragmentés en une série de formes géométriques et l'expressivité fait place à des plans qui s'entrecoupent, caractéristiques d'une vision cubiste de l'espace.
L'oeuvre que nous présentons ici, datée 1928, tend vers une abstraction géométrique et annonce son adhésion au groupe Abstraction-Création auquel il participe activement dès 1933.
Il est aux côtés d'Albert Gleizes, de Théo van Doesburg et de Mondrian à l'occasion de l'exposition du groupe De Branding à Amsterdam.
Il est maintenant mondialement connu et la majorité de ses oeuvres exécutées en France sont visibles depuis 1970 à la Galerie Nationale Hongroise.
Deaf and mute following a childhood illness, Lajos TIHANYI would struggle to express himself throughout his life. This handicap would be, according to the artist himself, crucial in observing and interpreting the gestures and events in his life with a greater acuity and sensitivity, and is evidenced by an exacerbated expressiveness in his works. He learned to become a photographer while taking drawing classes at the National Conservatory of Arts and Trades between 1903 and 1905. From 1907 to 1910, Tihanyi spent every summer at the colony of painters in Nagybanja where he was inspired by the neo-Impressionists who were influenced by French modern painting. During his first trip to Paris in 1908, he studied the painting of Cézanne, Gauguin and Matisse and created several paintings inspired by these teachings.
In Budapest, the artist played an increasing role in the artistic milieu and participated in the exhibition of the group Huit. He later collaborated with the Activists under the direction of Lajos Kaassak; an artist emblematic of this period, who in turn afterwards took the initiative to organize the exhibition of Tihanyi in Budapest. From 1918 to 1920 Tihanyi lived in Vienna and Berlin before moving to Paris in 1923 where he resided for the rest of his life with the exception of one trip to the United States. Friend of Brassaï and Tristan Tzara, he painted both of their portraits. The faces are portrayed fragmented in a series of geometric forms, where an expressiveness resounds from the intersecting planes, in a style characteristic of the cubist's.
The present work, dated 1928, exemplifies a style that tends towards geometric abstraction and prefigures his membership in 1933 of the Abstraction-Creation group. He exhibited beside Albert Gleizes as well as Théo van Doesburg and Mondrian during an exhibition of the De Branding group in Amsterdam. The notoriety of this artist brought him to an international level of acclaim and his works that remained in France were visible to the public beginning in 1970 at the National Gallery of Hungary.
Bibliographie : Catalogue de l'exposition L'Avant-garde hongroise, 1915-1925. BBL, Bruxelles, octobre 1999-janvier 2000. Editions Brepols, 1999.
Catalogue de l'exposition Lumières Magyares, Les tendances coloristes de la peinture hongroise entre 1871 et 1914. Hôtel de Ville, octobre 2001- janvier 2002. Zenith S.A., Egyetemi Nyomda, 2001.
Pictures credits: Contact organization
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