The INVESTinART Collection · painting · 36 × 49,5 cm
In the Park
Original title: “V parku”
1887 Hőgyész–1946 Trenčín
About the work
An intimate park scene, painted with Mousson's characteristically rapid, impasto brushstrokes and carrying his impressionist play of light filtering through the greenery. The work on cardboard, signed lower left and bearing a label on the verso, is a fine example of the plein-air register of the “painter of the Zemplín sun”, whose work ranks among the most sought-after on the Slovak art market.
Catalogue details
- Artist
- Jozef Teodor Mousson
- Medium
- oil on cardboard
- Signature
- lower left; label on the verso
- Dimensions (unframed)
- 36 × 49,5 cm
- Dimensions (framed)
- not stated in the catalogue — to be measured
- Provenance
- Auction house, Slovak Republic
About the artist
Jozef Teodor Mousson
1887 Hőgyész–1946 Trenčín
„The painter of the Zemplín sun and its people“: born in Hőgyész in Hungary, he studied at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts under Ede Balló (1905–1909), passed through the Művészház scholarship and the Nagybánya colony — and in 1911 settled in Michalovce, to which he stayed faithful for thirty-three years, painting from 1931 in a villa at Hrádok leased to him by Count Sztáray.
His luminist plein-air grew into a sensuous, hedonistic painting of markets, church feasts and peasant life — sun-drenched canvases such as The Blessing of the Waters on the Laborec (1922) are kept today by the Zemplín Museum in Michalovce. Our scene In the Park belongs precisely to this world of light.
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“In the Park” — Jozef Teodor Mousson