CSOK, ISTVAN (1865-1961)

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“Tamar” (c.1925)
Oil on canvas on board
100 x 100cm
Signed lower left
*private collection, Sydney
 
Csók was a famous Hungarian Impressionist. He studied at the Mintarajziskola (School of Drawing) in Budapest, at the Academy in Munich, and in Paris. In 1891 the Paris Salon awarded him its gold medal for his painting Úrvacsora (‘‘Do This in Memory of Me [Holy Communion]’’), and in 1894 he won a national gold medal in Vienna. In 1895–96 he painted many portraits and scenes of the everyday life of the Shokats people of Transdanubia in their colourful traditional dress. After seven more years in Paris (1903–10), during which he produced the well-known painting Mûteremsarok (1905; “Corner of a Studio”), he returned to Budapest, where he remained for the rest of his life. His work is represented in several Major National Collections, including the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the second by the Hungarian National Museum. His art was honored with several awards, among them the Kossuth Prize, which he won twice, he was a professor at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts; he had exhibitions in Roma (1914), San Francisco (1917), London (1922), Pittsburg (1926) and three large individual exhibitions in Budapest (1914, 1935, 1955).