Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery

Live Virtual Auction, 19 - 21 September 2022

Silver, Furniture and Ceramics
About the Session

including The Property of a Connoisseur Part III and The Property of the Estate Late Tiemen Groen


  • Ferenc Varga (Hungarian, 1906-1989), Sorrow
  • Ferenc Varga (Hungarian, 1906-1989), Sorrow
  • Ferenc Varga (Hungarian, 1906-1989), Sorrow


Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000

About this Item

Ferenc Varga (Hungarian, 1906-1989), Sorrow
white marble, signed Varga F., minor chips, 36,5cm high, 27cm wide; with mottled brown marble plinth, chips, 7,8cm high, 29cm wide, 24cm deep

Notes

Ferenc Varga was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary on 29 of May 1906. Demonstrating an aptitude for craft at an early age earned him a place in the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest where he studied under professors Jeno Bory and Ferenc Sidló. After graduating he would teach as Bory's assistant from 1928 to 1940. The present lot was presumably executed during this period as a maquette for a life size marble dated 1932. 1

1. Ferenc Varga; Selected Works. Varga Studios, Delray Beach, Florida.



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