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Now painter Imre Bak Kossuth and Mihály Munkácsy, award-winning painter Mihály Munkácsy, nation’s artist and university professor, has never received so much for any of his works as the one he ultimately put up for auction in the auction house’s latest auction. of Polswiss art in Warsaw. orange An enthusiastic buyer paid for the job. The geometric abstract work, painted in 1969, was initially estimated at PLN 350-450 thousand, but in the end the offer stopped at PLN 490 thousand. That is, the buyer paid 578,200 zlotys, about 46,267 million guilders, along with the commissions, the art portal Papageno reported. As they wrote,
have not paid that much for a single work by an artist living in Hungary today,
and thus the artist rose to a very prominent place in the field of live contemporary Hungarian painters auctions.
The portal recalled that Imre Bak, a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Arts, broke into the consciousness of Hungarian public art, and increasingly international, as one of the neo-avant-garde artists of the so-called Iparterv Group in the late 1960s. His exhibitions and works in national and foreign public collections, housed at the Tate in London and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, have achieved increasing success in the public art trade in recent years.
István Nádler held the previous record for the price of contemporary painting: in 2019, the bidding for his painting titled Contact ended at 35 million HUF in the contemporary auction of the Virág Judit Gallery.
Imre Bak’s biggest hit in Hungary to date was 9 million HUF, and it did not exceed even for the average 9.7 million HUF of the recently signed contract with Magyar Nemzeti Bank for 10 paintings.
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