Ivan Hevesy
On the River Bank

ArtistHungarian, 1863–1966
ArtistHungarian, 1909–1978
CultureHungarian
Titles
  • On the River Bank
Date1931
Place depictedBudapest, Hungary
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 9 in. (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18.3 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1296
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


The avant-garde artist and theorist Ivan Hevesy believed that new forms of art would emerge from the actions and every day artistry of people on the street, rather than from any formal schools or apprenticeships. Working with photographer Kata Kálmán, the pair set out to capture candid scenes that demonstrated this new artistic ideal. On the River Bank features Budapest’s city-dwellers treating the man-made, rocky shore of the Danube river as a beach. Despite the oddity of the situation, the scene is beautiful as seen through Kálmán’s camera with white rocks and tanned skin in contrast.



ProvenanceManfred Heiting; given to MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, "Hungarian Avant-Garde Photographers from the Manfred Heiting Collection", March 1, 2004-May 23, 2004
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, upper right: "13.000"."

Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: "Napozás hovehen"
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso of sheet, upper left: "Hevesy Iván"
verso center a stamp " Copyright reserved / No. 3,004[in ink] / Foto: HEVESY-KALMAN / BUDAPEST, I.I.,CSERJE-UTCA 4. "

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