Pre-War Figurative Art
(1922 - 1950)
Signature
Not signed
Provenance
Saphier collection
Exhibited
Naive paintings from the Saphier collection
2004
Szombathelyi Képtár
Szombathely
Originally trained as a blacksmith, Győri decided to become a painter in 1929. From the mid-1930s he exhibited in Budapest at the so-called Őstehetségek Exhibitions, but like many of his contemporaries, he was disturbed by the label. So in 1940 he enrolled at the College of Fine Arts to become a trained painter, but left the institution before graduating in the spring of 1944.
Győri's large mass portraits are typically composed of mosaic-like scenes, but his instinctive composing power always creates structural unity.