László Neogrády
Winter Mountain Landscape
About the SessionSpanning 4 centuries of global art history, The International Sale, presents 127 exceptional lots by artists from 27 countries across five continents. The auction highlights masterworks ranging from 17th century European paintings to post-2000 editions by contemporary artist's such as Mr Brainwash (lot 51), Jim Dine (lots 83-86), Isaac Julien (lot 108), Jeff Koons (45), and Lucas Samaras (lot 107 and 110). The sale is anchored by important pieces from Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat, and a newly repatriated 1935 portrait by Irma Stern.
The auction's diversity is driven by rare museum-quality highlights, led by Irma Stern's Two Women (lot 31), which returns to South Africa after decades in a Berlin private collection. It is joined by Erik Laubscher's rare recto-verso painting Young Family / Construction (lot 48), an Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat photographic portrait linked to her award-winning Turbulent installation (lot 66), and a uniquely hand-coloured linocut by German master Georg Baselitz titled Das Pferd, Im Wald und auf der Heide Series (The Horse, in the Forest and on the Heath Series) (lot 72).
LOT 21
László Neogrády
Winter Mountain Landscape
About this Item
signed
Provenance
Strauss & Co, Online, 21 February 2022, lot 353.
Notes
Born into an artistic family in Budapest on 2 April 1896, László Neogrády was immersed in creativity from a young age. He received his first art training from his father, Antal Neogrády (1861-1942), a well-known landscape painter. László Neogrády went on to study at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under portraitist Ede Ballo (1859-1936). He later became an art teacher in his native Budapest, specialising in watercolour techniques. He simultaneously exhibited his own work, with a notable 1922 exhibition at the Hungarian Art Gallery.
Neogrády is best known for his naturalistic rustic landscapes: snow-covered forests, rural peasant scenes, riverbanks and streams recur constantly across his output. His work is generally classed with Impressionism, though it reads as fairly conservative, atmospheric naturalism rather than experimental. His work, particularly his subject matter and colour palette, closely echoes his father's. He made use of strong impasto and atmospheric effects to create a three-dimensional surface, a notable trait of the artist's work.
He died on 27 August 1962 in Budapest. Neogrády's artwork is held in the Iowa State University Museum in Ames and the National Museum of Hungary in Budapest, among other collections.
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