Still life at the window (1948)

Alice Bélaváry is the wife of painter Ödön Vaszkó, member of the Women's Eight. Her early painting was influenced by naive painting, art deco and later German expressionism. The current still-life is more influenced by Aurél Bernáth, who painted numerous compositions from the late 1920s onwards, in which typical objects of modern still-life painting (flowers, books, lamps) appear in the company of an open window. Bélaváry is very ingenious in capturing the intimate atmosphere of a warm summer evening with the relatively narrow framing, the winged night butterflies suggesting volatility and subtle eroticism, and the suggestively translucent, floating curtains.