Female Nude (1920)

Bossányi met Imre Szobotka at the School of Applied Arts, with whom he became inseparable friends, and together they went on summer study trips to Italy. From 1910 Bossányi spent a lot of time in Paris, attending the Julian Academy, but he also returned to Rome and London. His parents were wealthy and supported his son, who was able to rent an independent studio in Paris from 1914. In the summer of the same year, he and Szobotka decided to go to Bretagne for a month. However, the outbreak of war made it four years, as they were both sent to internment camps. Bossányi left around thirty oil paintings and two hundred drawings in his Paris studio, all of which have been lost. Unfortunately for him, this would not be the last such incident in his life, for when Hitler came to power and was forced to flee, his oeuvre of 14 years in Germany also fell victim to Hitler's vandalism. However, at least there is a documentary record of this period, as the Hungarian Applied Art published an article by Dr. Emil Benezé on Bossányi in 1930, with reproductions of some of his works. 

Some of Bossányi's works from the internment camp also survive, almost a hundred watercolours and a few paintings. The Nude of a Woman was probably painted at the beginning of his stay in Germany, in the 1920s. The woman's figure still retains a Cubist approach, but the half-squatting, bending posture and the contemplative gaze are reminiscent of his sculptures of women in Germany.