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Mihály Munkácsy · c. 1886-87
Provenance
Ownership history
- Carl Hugo Schmeil (1852-1923), Dresden; sold, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Oct. 16, 1916, lot 89 to Hurburt Wilhelm Friedrich Underberg (1861-1935) [annotated sale catalogue in curatorial object file]. Sold, Sotheby’s London, June 23, 1981, lot 45 to Nicolas M. Salgo, New York (died 2005) [invoice from Sotheby’s London, June 23, 1981; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to The Salgo Trust for Education; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New Brunswick, NJ, American Hungarian Foundation, Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Painting, May 20–Oct. 14, 1990.
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, A Legacy Envisioned: A Century of Modern Art to Celebrate Hungary’s 1100 Years 896-1996, Nov. 4 – Dec. 5, 1996, cat. 32.
- New Brunswick, NJ, Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, Munkácsy in America: Works of the Celebrated Hungarian Painter from American Collections, Mar. 26-June 18, 2000.
- New Brunswick, NJ, Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, ‘Everywhere a Foreigner and Yet Nowhere a Stranger’: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Artists from The Salgo Trust for Education, Nov. 23, 2003-Sep. 12, 2004, cat. 37.
- Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, Munkácsy a nagyvilágban: Munkácsy Mihály művei külföldi és magyar magán- és közgyűjteményekben, Mar. 24-July 31, 2005, cat. 100 [Munkácsy in the world: Mihály Munkácsy's works in private and public collections at home and abroad].
- New Brunswick, NJ, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, The Magyar Imagination: Selections from the Salgo Trust Collection of Hungarian Art, Dec. 8, 2007-Mar. 30, 2008, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Végvári Lajos, Munkácsy Mihály élete és művei (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1958), pl. 173 no. 448.
- Végvári Lajos, Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen Mihály Munkácsys (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1959), 60 no. 448, pl. 173.
- Végvári Lajos, Katalog der Gemalde uns Zeichningen Mihaly Munkacsys (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1959), 60, pl. 173 no. 448.
- Nicolas M. Salgó, Two centuries of Hungarian painters, 1820-1970: A Catalogue of the Nicolas Salgó Collection, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C. American University Press; Lanham, MD: Distributed by arrangement with National Book Network, 1991), 46 cat. 30.
- Steven A Mansbach, A Legacy Envisioned: A Century of Modern Art to Celebrate Hungary’s 1100 Years 896-1996, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1996), 6, 44 cat. 32.
- Munkácsy in America: Works of the Celebrated Hungarian Painter from American Collections (New Brunswick, N.J.: Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 2000).
- ‘Everywhere a Foreigner and Yet Nowhere a Stranger’: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Artists from The Salgo Trust for Education, exh. cat. (New Brunswick: Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 2003), np. no. 37.
- Dr. Zsuzsanna Bakó, Munkácsy a nagyvilágban: Munkácsy Mihály művei külföldi és magyar magán- és közgyűjteményekben, exh. cat., trans. Annamária Bernáth (Budapest: Munkácsy Alapítvány, 2011), cover ill., 210 cat. 100, 234 [Munkácsy in the world: Mihály Munkácsy's works in private and public collections at home and abroad].
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