Easter sprinkling (1935)

Elek Győri (1905 - 1957)

Information

Size

50 x 51 cm

Material

Oil on wooden board

Price

5,000 USD

Signature

Signed bottom left: Győri Elek 1935.

Bibliography

Reproduced: 

  • Magyarság melléklete, 1935. június 16., 3.

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

About

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.

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(1800 - 1980)

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