The INVESTinART Collection · painting · 55 × 75 cm
The Team of Horses
Original title: “Záprah”
1891 Szokolya–1987 Budapest
About the work
The Team of Horses — a dynamic equine scene by János Viski, one of the best-known Hungarian “painters of horses.” Viski devoted his work to capturing the movement and beauty of horses; his naturalist animal compositions won him international recognition, including the Grand Prix at the 1936 Paris Salon. The work brings a renowned Hungarian name and the specific genre of animal painting — otherwise absent from the collection — and his horses appear regularly at auction from Budapest to international sales; his works are in the Hungarian National Gallery.
Catalogue details
- Artist
- János Viski
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Signature
- lower right
- Dimensions (unframed)
- 55 × 75 cm
- Dimensions (framed)
- not stated in the catalogue — to be measured
- Provenance
- Auction house, Slovak Republic
About the artist
János Viski
1891 Szokolya–1987 Budapest
A Hungarian painter of horses and the puszta whose road led from a cooper's son in Szokolya through Tivadar Zemplényi's studio and the Kecskemét colony all the way to South America — in 1923–1929 he painted the Argentine pampas and gauchos. The Grand Prix at the 1936 Paris Salon crowned his recognition; his dynamic compositions of galloping horses are fixtures of Hungarian auctions, and the Horse Team in our collection is a textbook example of his lifelong theme.
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“The Team of Horses” — János Viski