Albert Bertalan: Cherries And Flowers On An Entablature. Hungary / Paris

Oil on canvas worked with large and thick touches of color accentuating the reliefs of this bowl of cherries and the flowers carelessly placed next to it on a table set with a blue tablecloth.
Signed BERTALAN lower left.
Albert Bertalan was born in 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He studied at the Nagybanya art school with the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald, Adolf Fényes and Istàn Réti. He exhibited in Nuremberg and then regularly at the Gallery of Pal Lazlo in Budapest. Bertalan moved to Paris in 1924 where he attended classes at the Académie Julian. He quickly became friends with Nicolas Czinober, another Hungarian painter who arrived in Paris the same year, and became a member of the Association of New Artists, an association of Hungarian artists founded by the painter and professor János Vaszary in 1923. He exhibited for the first time in 1925. In 1928, he won the Szinyei Prize. His works are now held in various museums: the Musée départemental de l'Oise in Beauvais, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) in Paris, the Musée Janus Pannonius in Pécs and the Hamza Museum in Jászberény and in many private collections.

Beautiful and large original patinated gilded frame decorated with foliage, a row of pearls and a row of ova (small loss at the back of a corner) on the back stamp of the frame seller in Montmartre. Frame height 57 cm - width 72 cm Canvas 33 X 46 cm
Very good condition