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Emory Ladanyi
'Passacaglia, the Dance' New York, Brooklyn Museum, Berlin, Basel, AAC, NAD

1968

About the Item

Signed lower right, 'Landanyi' for Emory Landanyi (Hungarian-American, 1902-1986); additionally signed, verso, dated 1968 and titled, 'Passacaglia'. Born in Hungary, Emory Ladanyi first attended the University of Budapest Medical School. During his medical residency in Berlin, he was especially influenced by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism. During a second residency, in Vienna, he was also exposed to the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka who were influential in his further development. In 1929, Landanyi arrived in New York and began to practice medicine which enabled him to continue painting. Outside of his professional work, he moved exclusively in the avant-garde artistic circles of New York City, becoming close friends of the composer Edgar Varese, the poet Kenneth Patchen and the writers Anais Nin and Henry Miller. After Pearl Harbor, Landanyi volunteered for service in the US Army and was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps. During the duration of the war, he gave up his medical practice and in 1945, he resumed both his medical practice and painting. He exhibited widely and with success, including in Budapest, Berlin, New York, Chicago and Massachusetts Museum of Art. This painting is accompanied by a first edition of the hard-cover book titled, "Ladanyi", published by Abaris Books, Inc (1977), in which this work is illustrated on p.132. EXHIBITIONS: Gallerie Sturm, Berline, 1927 Barta Miklos Tarsag, Budapest, 1929 Society of Independent Artist, NYC, 1932 Park Lane Gardens, NYC, 1934 Salons of America, The Forum in Rockefeller Center, 1935 Brooklyn Museum, Oil paintings by Living Artist, 1935 Contemporary Arts Gallery, Mid-Season Retrospective, 1936 American Artist Congress, NYC 1939 International Watercolor Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago, 1939 New York World's Fair, American Pavillion, 1939 Modern Art Studio, NYC, 1944 Museum of Art, Springfield, Mass, 1959 Ninth Annual New England Exhibition, Silvermine Guild, 1959 National Academy of Design, 1960 Silvermine Guild of Artist, Lever House, NYC 1964 Hartford Art Foundation, Hartford, Ct 1965 Niveau Gallery, NYC 1966, 1967-1977 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, The Avant Gard of Hungary in the Nineteen Thirties Group, 1980 Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, 1983 Lyle Evan Gallery, Lexington, Mass. 1984 BOOKS Ladanyi, by Walter L. Strauss, 1977, Abaris Books, Inc. Introduction by Walasse Ting Collages, 1984, Matignon Gallery Woodcuts, 1986, Kovesdy Gallery Reference: Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 3, p. 152; et al.
  • Creator:
    Emory Ladanyi (1902 - 1986)
  • Creation Year:
    1968
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    minor restoration, minor losses, impasto is stable; unframed.
  • Gallery Location:
    Santa Cruz, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3449171032
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