village casino     detail     98/67 cm watercolor     ka.14     1927
István Winkler     Sopron

there are five peasants sitting in two separate groups in the heavy air of the casino. A ray of light glimmers through the narrow window and bathes the white heads accentuating the white sleeves and bright waistcoats against the dark background, and framing the lively faces and diligent peasant hands painted with melting colours, but petering out and becoming faint at the rough skin of the five pairs of boots. This earthly example of depicting a more complex reality was a test, but Horváth did not only pass the test but did so with ‘flying colours’
Rezső Becht     1961

oeuvre exhibition       Budapest National Salon     1959