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ZSIGMOND KISFALUDI STROBL (1884-1975) - COLLECTION...

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ZSIGMOND KISFALUDI STROBL (1884-1975) - COLLECTION JÓZSEF VÁGÓ (1877-1947) THEN PIERRE VAGO (1910-2002) Fürd?z? lány (Bather also called The Bathtub), the model designed in [1911]. Sculpture. Bronze medal skate. Antique cast iron from the 1910s. Wear and tear to the patina and important oxidations. Signed KISFALUDI STROBL, bears the date 1911 and the circular foundryman's stamp on the terrace. Height : 65 cm Provenance : - Collection József Vágó (1877-1947). Architect, figure of the Secession movement in Hungary. - Collection Pierre Vago (1910-2002) (Pierre Vágó, known as), son of the previous one. Architect, editor-in-chief of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui from 1932 to 1947, then president of the Editorial Committee of this publication, member of the UAM, founder of the International Union of Architects (U.I.A.) in 1948. Acknowledgements : We would like to express our most sincere thanks to Mr. Gergely Barki (Budapest), art historian, specialist in 20th century Hungarian art and author of books on the subject, curator, curator and curator of exhibitions, for his invaluable help in our research on the works from the former Collection of József Vágó; especially for the identification of the works of Jeno Remsey and Elza Kövesházi Kalmár. May he receive here all our gratitude.