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The so-far unknown painting of Rippl-Rónai
Two auctions on Saturday

The Ferenc Gallery discovered a Rippl-Rónai work

On the Saturday evening auction of the Belvedere Gallery the works of Rippl-Rónai József, Czigány Dezső, Kádár Béla and Márffy Ödön were evaluated uppermost. On the same the in the Krisztina antique book shop 486 items came under the hammer: many  signed limited first edition, signed bibliophile publications, twenty-five old maps, more than fifty publication before 1850, Kner -publications.

The most, 24 million Forints, was paid for the lively-coloured picture of József Rippl-Rónai, titled Kursalon in the city park, 1914. A Czigány work rarely occurs on an auction, on the market. Now the flower vase still-life from around 1915, which has the effect of Cézanne on it, could be bought. Starting from a 5.5 million forint put-up price they gave 14 million Forints for it. The self-portrait of Béla Kádár follows the portrait of Kádár painted by Hugó Scheiber. The remarkable work of the oeuvre lay low in a private collection. The picture started from a 2.2 million Forint put-up price and competed up to 12 million Forints. From Ödön Márffy a lyric garden part painted probably in Paris reached a high price. It rose from 6.5 million forints to 10 million.

On the same day the Krisztina antique book shop held an exhaustively long auction. The solid 2 -5 thousand-forint put-up prices were doubled or tripled, and more than 100 thousand forints were paid for many books. A very rare RMK (the old Hungarian books from before 1711 are signed this way) was brought away for more than half a million forints. The four bound book including psalms, prayers and catechism was published in the 1690s - it started from 200 thousand forints and was adjudicated at 550 thousand forints.

The Mister Hercules - Exciting booklets published between 1921 and 1924 are rarely put into circulation. Now from the 64-volume series in all 48 were offered for 30 thousand forints and since a lot would have liked to get it in the end the fortunate bidder could buy the series for 170 thousand forints. The first edition of Dobos C., József's Hungarian- French cookery book from 1881, which according to its subtitle is an indispensable guide book in every household, was raised from 18 thousand to 100 thousand forints.

Lajos Gró's essay book about the Russian film art was published in 1931 in the publication of Lajos Kassák's Work-circle. The cover is Lajos Kassák's montage. The book signed by he author "flew" from 18 thousand forints to 110 thousand forints. The album Russian ballet, which was published only in 50 copies, includes twelve signed copper engravings from Ida Kohner: the sixteenth from the numbered copies was auctioned for 190 thousand forints.

Sixteen pieces were offered from the interesting stereo photographs taken by Rezső Krémer MÁV-stationdirector between 1896 and 1911. The item which included 71 pictures about southern cities started from 24 thousand forints and finished at 50 thousand. The 22 pieces of Budapest vista went up to 65 thousand while the 54 stereo pictures showing the millennium exhibition were sold for 110 forints.  

There was a hard competition for the socreal posters discernibly from the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s. The Viva April 4! Poster signed by Gönczi was bought by a collector for 60 thousand forints. The same amount was given for the Have a peace loan! Wallpaper. The Vote for the popular front!, the International women's day and the Buy off the pleg for spring! Posters and the rest were sold for between 22 and 5 thousand forints.

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