The shows are being organised by Sándor Koncz, who owns the Koncz Gallery in Miskolc.
Koncz met Mikola in 1994 and the two men formed a friendship that lasted until Mikola?s death a decade later.
Mikola?s watercolours are like Japanese paintings, with an ethereal quality, he said.
The exhibition at Koncz?s gallery, entitled Mikola 100, will be opened by the Munkácsy Prize-winning painter Árpád Szabados.
From Miskolc, some of the paintings will travel to the Art&Paint Gallery in Budapest?s Úri Street.
The last stop for the show will be Debrecen?s Mélisz Centre, where even more works will be added.
A retrospective of Mikola?s work was shown in Debrecen?s Medgyessy Museum in 2004, the year before he died. The artist attended the opening and announced he would grant 29 of his watercolours to the Hungarian National Gallery.
Mikola?s first show was at the University of Debrecen in 1971. In 1982 he participated in the second Homage to the Homeland exhibition in the Műcsarnok.
Mikola?s paintings are in several public and private collections in Finland, including in Hesinki, Turku and Tampere. Some of his works are also in the collection in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
He started his training in Budapest, alongside his father, who was a typographer. He later enrolled in a lithography course at the Applied Arts College and at the same time studied under Gyula Radnay at the Free Academy of Art. In 1935, he studied at the Graphics Institute in Vienna, and in 1936 he left for Helsinki where he enrolled in the Central School of Applied Arts.
He worked as a graphic artist for an advertising firm in the port city of Vaasa from 1938. He made study trips to Paris, Rome and Florence in 1951. In addition to graphics and paintings, he made documentaries for Finnish television.
Mikola became a Finnish citizen in 1947.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
