Red Locomotive (formerly) Train Leaving Tunnel

Artist: Sándor Bortnyik (Hungarian, 1893–1976)

1918–19

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera on paperboard

Dimensions

48 15/16 × 34 15/16 in. (124.3 × 88.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.356

Culture

Hungarian

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Societe Anonyme, by 1922; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Carlotta Castellani, "The Hungarian MA Circle in the Société Anonyme Collection: Sándor Bortnyik, László Moholy-Nagy, and László Péri," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 94, 96, fig. 1
  • John E. Bowlt and Nicole Misler, Twentieth-Century Russian and East European Painting: the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1994)
  • Krisztina Passuth, The Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe (Toronto: Corvina, 1992)
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 81, no. 57, ill.
  • Krisztina Passuth and Júlia Szabó, The Hungarian Avant Garde: the Eight and the Activists, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, February–April 1980)
  • László Borbély, Sandor Bortnyik, exh. cat. (Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery, 1977)
  • Eva Korner, Sandor Bortnyik (Budapest: Corvina, 1975)
  • Erzsébet Schaár, Kunst in Ungarn 1900–1950, exh. cat. (Lucerne, Switzerland: Kuntsmuseum, 1975)
  • Ungarische Avantgarde, exh. cat. (Zurich: Galerie Schlégl, 1975)
  • Krisztina Passuth, Magyar Muveszek as Europai Avantfarde–Ban (Budapest: Corvina, 1974)
  • Sandor Bortnyik: Ölbilder, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Galerie Gmurzynska, 1972)
  • Eva Korner, Ungarische Avantgarde 1909–1930, exh. cat. (Munich: Galleria del Levante, 1972)
  • László Borbély, Sandor Bortnyik (Budapest: Corvina, 1971)
  • Sandor Bortynik, exh. cat. (Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery, April–May 1969)
  • Lajos Nemeth, Modern Art in Hungary (Budapest: Corvina, 1968)
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 195, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Signed

Signed l.r. "Alexander Bortnyik"

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