The two paintings acquired by the Tate Modern were made between 1958 and 1962. The museum also has works by the Hungarian artists László Moholy-Nagy, Zoltán Kemény and André Kertész.
Reigl was born in 1923 and moved to France in 1950. Reigl?s first exhibition in France was organised with the assistance of the surrealist André Breton. Soon after, she departed from surrealism and started working with other mediums.
Many of her works are included in French private and public collections, including 37 works at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her first exhibition in Hungary was at the Műcsarnok in 2005.
Several of her paintings from the 1950s were displayed by Erdész and Makláry Fine Arts at the Plug Contemporary Arts Fair in Budapest a few weeks ago.
?She established a purely gesture-based painting, which in essence meant that there were no pre-planned moves, execution was fast and the artist worked in a ecstatic state,? Erdész and Makláry Fine Arts writes of Reigl?s work in a statement.
The next exhibition of Reigl?s work will be at the Jozsef Gat in New York in March 2007.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
