The INVESTinART Collection · painting · 48 × 68,5 cm
Return from Pasture
Original title: “Návrat z paše”
1864 Košice–1937 Košice
About the work
A herd returning from pasture — an intimate pastoral scene by the only Slovak pupil of Mařák's school, carrying the lyrical mood of his landscape training; a motif present in Csordák's work since his Munich years. The work is published in the monograph on Ľudovít Csordák.
Catalogue details
- Artist
- Ľudovít Csordák
- Year
- 1915 – 1920
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Signature
- lower right
- Dimensions (unframed)
- 48 × 68,5 cm
- Dimensions (framed)
- not stated in the catalogue — to be measured
- Provenance
- Auction house, Slovak Republic
About the artist
Ľudovít Csordák
1864 Košice–1937 Košice
A co-founder of Košice modernism and one of eastern Slovakia's most refined landscapists: born in Košice to a tailor's family, he reached Munich and then the Prague Academy (1889–1895) — Julius Mařák's famous landscape school — thanks to the patronage of the Baronesses Melczer, joining the Mánes association in 1895 and co-founding Budapest's Nemzeti Szalon in 1907.
His lifelong subjects were forest interiors, clearings and castle ruins in oil, pastel and charcoal; the Prague exhibition „Mařák and His Pupils“ (1929) brought him wide recognition, and at auction his works reach thousands of euros, the record being €9,100 for an Autumn Landscape. The pastel Return from Pasture in our collection represents exactly this lyrical register.
Non-binding enquiry
I'm interested in this work
“Return from Pasture” — Ľudovít Csordák