Fruit Picker Girl (1923)

She was the sister of the writer Frigyes Karinthy. In 1908, Ada, then a teacher, married Viktor Erdei, a painter, from then on she was called Ada E. Karinthy. She studied at the painting school in Nagybánya between 1906 and 1912. In June 1911, the first news of her exhibition was published, which was held in Oradea, together with Lajos Gulácsy and Viktor Erdei. The exhibition was repeated a year later, in Szeged, and again a year later in Oradea. When she was studying painting in Paris in the early 1910s, Modigliani drew a portrait of her (1912), which is now in the possession of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Ada Karinthy initially rented a room at the Hotel du Pantheon, and then, at Modigliani's invitation, moved to the studio house at 14 Cité-Falguière. The following year she exhibited with the Ukrainian-born sculptor Alexander Archipenko. 

Ada Karinthy was a regular participant in group exhibitions at the National Salon and the Kunsthalle in the second half of the 1910s. Her work was mainly watercolours, but she also produced applied art and book illustrations. These latter activities continued to characterise her artistic work in the 1920s. Her main technique was watercolour and she mainly depicted folk scenes. The Fruit-picking Girl follows the trend of the 1930s, when artists combined Art Nouveau and Hungarian style, depicting Hungarian subjects, as the artists from Gödöllő did. Karinthy takes great care in designing and decorating the girl's dress. The work is paired with The Girl Picking Apples, both exhibited at the Ernst Museum group exhibition in 1931.