The exhibition, which ran from mid-July to mid-August, was called ?Are They Too Not Prophets In Their Own Land?. It focused on works by Hungarians who have lived and worked abroad, mostly in France.
Among the artists whose works were included in the exhibition and which are now in the auction catalogue are Sándor A. Tóth, Ákos Bíró, György Csató, Kadar Joseph, Judith Nemes, Anna Stein, Etienne Beothy, Emil Szittya, Alfréd Réth, Sipos László Kósza, Vilmos Huszár, Lívia Vajda and Klára Szilárd.
Starting prices are relatively low, considering the success these artists have achieved outside of their home country. Sándor A. Tóth?s ?Night Fisherman? (1970) is the most expensive piece in the catalogue, with a starting price of HUF 2.4 million. The painter?s work ?Fishermen in the Day? (1961) has a starting price of HUF 2 million. Despite the very different composition of the two pictures, they show a theme which Tóth used in his works for many years.
?Red Herrings? by Vilmos Huszár has a starting price of HUF 1.9 million. Huszár lived in the Netherlands and was member of the de Stijl group. From the 20s, he started putting on Dadaist performances and puppet shows.
?Belle Isle? (1914) by Alfréd Réth, who studied with Mednyánszky and later Károly Ferenczy, and who counts as a significant figure in the art movements of the 20th century, is listed at HUF 1.3 million. Another painting with cubist elements produced by the painter in 1965 also has a starting price of HUF 1.3 million.
Two large abstract works by Anna Stein, whose paintings were shown in the exhibition room of the Pairs Senate at the beginning of August, have starting prices of HUF 1.1 million and HUF 800,000.
Other works in the catalogue include Csaba Vilmos Perlrott?s ?Cityscape? starting at HUF 950,000, Menyhért Tóth?s ?Portrait of a Girl? starting at HUF 480,000, Béla Kontuly?s ?Still Life? starting at HUF 750,000, Béla Czóbel?s ?Pastel Flowers? starting at HUF 750,00, Gyula Marosán?s ?Clowns? starting at HUF 650,000, Armand Schönberger?s ?Self-Portrait? starting at HUF 480,000 and two sketches by Mihály Munkácsy, perhaps Hungary?s greatest painter, starting at HUF 280,000 apiece.
