Lot 10
  • 10

Sándor Bortnyik

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sándor Bortnyik
  • Untitled, from the 'MA' album
  • signed Bortnyik lower right
  • gouache with stencil on paper
  • 25 by 18.5cm., 9¾ by 7¼in. (composition size); 30.5 by 23.5cm., 12 by 9¼in. (sheet size)

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the present owner by 1970

Exhibited

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, The Non-Objective World: 1914-39, 1978, no. 18
Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum, 1980

Condition

The sheet has been attached intermittently to the mount. The sheet has time-stained somewhat over time apart from the extreme edges, which are lighter in tone, and it is very slightly undulated. The work is otherwise in good overall condition. Presented framed and glazed.
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Catalogue Note

Executed in 1921, an original work for the MA album, a series of six signed and numbered screenprints in an edition of 140, with an introduction by Lajos Kassak.