§ Béla Kádár (Hungarian 1877-1956) Mother and Child

§ Béla Kádár (Hungarian 1877-1956) Mother and Child signed (lower right), pen, ink, and watercolour on paper (41cm x 29cm (16in x 11.5in)) Provenance: Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto; Private Collection, London Footnote: Béla Kádár was a Hungarian painter and one of the most famous painters of the Hungarian avant-garde whose paintings reflected many of the leading artistic movements of the early 20th Century including Der Blaue Reiter, Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting. Like other artists of his day he had been drawn to Paris and Berlin in 1910 to study, before permanently moving to Western Europe in 1918. By 1923 he had his first significant exhibition in Berlin at the invitation of Herwath Walden, who was a significant figure in the German avant-garde being publisher of Der Sturm magazine which featured the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall amongst others. During this exhibition Kádár met Katherine Dreier whose Société Anonyme was central to bringing the work of the European avant-garde to America, and as a result by 1928 he had held two exhibitions of his work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York.