GABOR, MORIC (1889-1986)

"Tulips & Lady Of The Valley" (c.1940)
oil on canvas laid on card
cm
signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Gabor was a prominent, award-winning Hungarian Modernist. He came from a Jewish family. He studied at the Royal College of Fine Arts in the years 1906 and 1907. His most important teachers were Bertalan Szekely, Pal Szinyei Merse and Ede Ballo. From 1907 to 1908 he studied at the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris, where attended the class of Ferdinand Cormon. After his studies he traveled to Italy, Germany, Austria, then he was a portrait painter in the United States and the Netherlands. In 1913 he returned home and painted in Budapest. By 1911, his cartoons were seen in Hungarian newspapers. Between 1945 - 1948 he taught at the College of Industrial Arts. He painted mainly landscapes, object paintings, portraits, rarely did he create stained glass windows and medals.