Naïve Art & Primitivism
(1800 - 1980)
Signature
Signed bottom left: Győri Elek 1935.
Bibliography
Reproduced:
Provenance
Saphier collection
Exhibited
Naive paintings from the Saphier collection
2004
Szombathelyi Képtár
Szombathely
Second Exhibition of Hungarian Ancestral Talents
1935. június
Nemzeti Szalon
Budapest
The inspiring source of Elek Győri remained the experience of peasant life and the worldview he absorbed as a child. Ernő Kállai traced the attractiveness of naive painting back to “a fresh originality free of the rules of manners and school tradition”. His painting, Easter Sprinkling, captures a celebrated event in village life from a subjective point of view, filled with a folk-tale atmosphere.