… the collection also includes documents relating to the reception history of Vajda’s art, such as exhibition invitations, exhibition reviews, and literature on Vajda’s art, which has been growing steadily since the 1970s. /Judit Radák/
… Tóth also included sixty-two signed digital prints, which had previously been featured in his exhibitions or in publications. The pieces of the series document György Tóth network of professional contacts in the contemporary art scene of the 1980s. It also offers insight into an important period of his then ongoing oeuvre, when such props were already beginning to make their appearance from his dreamlike shots of the nineties as studio backgrounds, flashes, compositional elements and …
… a lesser known side of the artist. Among the printed material, one finds catalogues, invitations, exhibition posters, lists of works and exhibition plans documenting Derkovits’s career path. With regards to the history of how Gyula Derkovits’s art was received through the decades, the essays and studies (by Lajos Kassák, Zoltán Farkas, Éva Körner, Lajos Vayer, Zoltán Székely) published during his lifetime and after his death, as well as the press releases found in the material, are of notable …
… for Art History. Throughout his life, Levente Nagy consistently collected all the letters, books, exhibition invitations, catalogues, and photographs that he could uncover relating to his uncle’s oeuvre and works. The collection includes correspondence between family members, original publications, and journals from the interwar decades, as well as catalogues of László Moholy-Nagy's solo exhibitions. Lucia Moholy-Nagy’s photographs of the performances of Madame Butterfly and the Tales of …
… with some magazines and, of course, some essential items such as soap and clothes. Her 1954 exhibition was opened by André Breton at La galerie à l'étoile scellée in Paris. Unfortunately, however, no letters survive from that time, only a reference to her art as “great things in the making”. On the postcards we see some friends, Simon Hantai, Tica (Teréz Dávid, who at this time worked with Jean Cocteau and later became a prominent figure in American animation) and a number of figures …