Rare Antique Pair Of Hand Colored Etchings Bela Sziklay Pencil Signed Framed

  

A Rare Antique Pair Of Hand Colored Etchings By Bela Sziklay Pencil Signed & Framed. This impression was hand-colored by Sziklay is printed upon wove paper. And with large margins, signed and titled. And annotated in pencil by the artist.

Sziklay in the lower left of the plate. These expressionism etchings depicts the cityscapes in stark realism in Italy in1930's. Art - 8.1/2 x 12. Sits in a wood & gold frame both are in e. (A Excellent Artist To Add to your Collection).

Hungarian - worked in early to mid nineteen thirties. Majority of work done in Italy, mainly in Venice although. This work is thought to be in Florence. Frame and glass are original but picture has been re-matted. Sziklay, Bela (Hungary, 1911 - Italy, 1981).

Bela Sziklay : A fine Hungarian artist, Bela Sziklay, first studied art in his native Hungary, and at the age of twenty three continued his artistic studies in France. At the end of 1934 Sziklay decided to move to Italy where he spent his career as an artist specializing in etching scenes of landmarks in Venice, Florence, Rome and other locations. According to Luigi Sziklay, his father also created a portrait of Pope Pius 12 and both he and his wife were invited by the Pope to a private audience. Bela Sziklay held many sole exhibitions in Rome, Tuscany, Florence, Montecantini, Venice and elsewhere.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco includes several Bela Sziklay etchings in its permanent collection. Matted with 100% Archival Materials.