Lot 26

Ľudovít Csordák (1864 - 1937) FOREST EDGE WITH SUNSET

Forest Edge with Sunset is, in a professional assessment by PhDr. Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová: “… an unquestionable and beautiful work by Slovak painter Ĺudovít Csordák. He lived in Munich in 1883-1889, when he received his first lessons in Munich romantic landscape painting and he became acquainted with the Baroness of Melczer, who enabled him to study landscape painting under Julius Mařák at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1889-1895. Mařák had a fundamental influence on all of Csordák’s work in terms of motifs, painterly expression and color palette. A fondness for forest interiors and love for the technique of charcoal drawing also connected Mařák and Cordák. Mařák’s influence on Cordák remained evident even after he left Prague in 1912 to permanently settle in his native Košice. This painting is a very attractive and typical example of Csordák’s work, which I believe was made during the painter’s studies in Prague. … Csordák’s romantically-toned paintings appear only rarely on the Prague art market, yet they are among the very high quality expressions of Czech and Slovak art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”