"Geza Szóbel (1905-1963) “genre Scene” "
Very pretty little watercolor signed lower right Szóbel representing a genre scene, Overall dimensions (without frame): 25 x 22 cm In Paris, Geza Szobel is close to Marc Chagall, Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Louis Aragon, Le Corbusier, and works with Robert Delaunay. His style, semi-figurative, returned to pure figuration with the Second World War - he then joined France before moving to England - which then inspired him to paint made up of tortured characters and scenes of terror. Françoise de Perthuis states that it was after the war that Geza Szobel “returned to the great geometric rhythms and exhibited in Paris and in several foreign capitals.