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A wonderful pastel on paper drawing circa 1925 by Hungarian artist, Jozsef Rippl-Ronai. This work depicts the artist's lover of 10 years - Zorka Banyai - known also as Elsa Banyai which was her christened name. Ronai met Zorka in 1915 whilst she was

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Jozsef Rippl-Ronai
Portrait of Zorka Banyai - Impressionist Pastel of Woman by Jozsef Rippl-Ronai
c.1925

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A wonderful pastel on paper drawing circa 1925 by Hungarian artist, Jozsef Rippl-Ronai. This work depicts the artist's lover of 10 years - Zorka Banyai - known also as Elsa Banyai which was her christened name. Ronai met Zorka in 1915 whilst she was working as a waitress and they set about a 10 year affair. In that time he painted her hundreds of times - predominantly in pastel and with various different hair cuts and styles as the years passed by. In this work she is pictured with red hair. She was known to have aspirations to be an actress and painter herself - due to her noted strong personal aura it was possible for the artist to capture her in many different moods and expressions. Signed lower left. Framed dimensions are 22 inches high by 18 inches wide. József Rippl-Ronai went to study at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich in 1884, where he worked in Johann Caspar Herterich's studio. In 1887 he went to Paris to continue his studies and worked for two years in the studio of Mihaly Munkácsy, a Hungarian Realist painter then living in Paris. He became friends with Aristide Maillol, Bonnard and Vuillard and, influenced by the work of James Whistler, Eugène Carrière and later Maurice Denis, he joined the Nabis. While in France, he contributed to the periodical La Revue blanche. He returned to Hungary in 1902, travelling to France once more in 1914. Rippl-Ronai's work as a young man in 1889 was sombre, giving rise to the name 'black style' for this period. He then spent several months in Banyuls-sur-Mer in Roussillon, where the light brightened his palette and inspired him to turn to landscape; nonetheless he retained his old Paris habit of outlining flat areas of colour with thick, black brushstrokes and sharp outlines. After he returned to Hungary, he abandoned the refinement of Art Nouveau and adopted a brilliantly coloured Pointillist style. At the same time, in keeping with local tastes, he tended towards popular Narrative Realism, while retaining some of the Japonisme of his Nabi period. He took part in public life, making posters, decorating ceramics and designing tapestries, on one notable occasion decorating the Androssy palace in Budapest. After World War I he abandoned oil painting for pastels. His mastery of this technique reached its height in the series of portraits of his writer friends which he did towards the end of his life. Rippl-Ronai took part in various increasingly successful group exhibitions, breathing new life into Hungarian art (1917, Magyar Nemzeti Gallery, Budapest, and Kaposvár). After his death his work was exhibited once more in Budapest ( 1947, 1952), and in shows such as Beöthy and the Hungarian Avant-Garde ( Beöthy et l'avant-garde hongroise) (Galerie Franka Berndt, Paris, 1984); the retrospective Les Nabis organised by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and held in the Grand Palais, Paris (1993), and József Rippl-Ronai: The Hungarian Nabi ( József Rippl-Ronaï le Nabi hongrois), Musée Maurice-Denis, St-Germain-en-Laye, 1998. Museum and Gallery Holdings Budapest (Szépmuvészeti Múz.): Portrait of Bonnard; Portrait of the Artist's Grandmother; Portrait of Lajos Rippl-Ronai Paris (MNAM-CCI): Portrait of Aristide Maillol Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Park at Night (pastel)

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Artist
Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (1861 - 1927, Hungarian)
Creation Year
c.1925
Medium
Paper,Pastel

Movement & Style
Impressionist
Condition
Good
Condition Details
Very good condition for age

Period
Early 20th Century
Dimensions
H 16 in. x W 12 in.H 40.64 cm x W 30.48 cm
Gallery Location
Flackwell Heath, GB

Reference Number
LU41535668732
Seller Reference Number
LFA

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