Sotheby's / Nov 24, 2009
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Gyula, Jules Tornai - The Alter, Basilica Di San Marco, Venice
Original 1889
Auction:
Ritchie's -
Oct 21, 2012- Toronto
Lot number:
185
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Lot 185
Tornai, Gruyla (Hungarian, 1861-1928).
Tornai, Gruyla (Hungarian, 1861-1928).
THE ALTER, BASILICA DI SAN MARCO, VENICE. Oil on canvas being relined and restretched at a later date. Signed with initials and dated '1889 at Venezi.' Tornai has paintings in the National Gallery of Hungary and has sold at all major auction houses. Gilt frame.
27.2" x 18" — 70 x 46 cm.
Estimate $5,000/6,000
Est: $5,000 / $6,000
Gyula, Jules Tornai - The Water-pipe Smoker
Original 1903
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Gyula Tornai
(Görgö 1861–1928 Budapest) The Water-Pipe Smoker, signed, dated Tornai Gy. 1903, oil on panel, 58 x 34 cm, framed (behind glass), (Rei)
Gyula Tornai Studied at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. He also travelled to India, Japan and Africa. He exhibited regularly in Paris, London and Hungary from 1904 onwards. Oriental motifs were his predominant subject matter. The Hungarian National Gallery houses several of his paintings.
Specialist: Mag. Dimitra Reimüller
Gyula, Jules Tornai - A Japanese Princess Going To Church
Original 1906
Auction:
Bonhams -
Oct 20, 2010- New York
Lot number:
195
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Gyula Tornai (Hungarian, 1861-1928)
A Japanese princess going to church
signed and inscribed 'Tornai Gy. Tokio' (lower left)
oil on canvas
96 1/2 x 52in (245 x 132cm)
Painted circa 1906
EXHIBITED: Goupil Gallery, London, 1906; Emil Richter Kunstsalon, Dresden, November 1907; Keller und Reiner Kunstsalon, Berlin, November 1907; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, January 1908; Leipzig, March - April, 1908; Galerie Bock, Hamburg, May 1908; 'Japan and India', Tornai solo exhibition, Budapest, October, 1909,no. 12. LITERATURE: Elet , 24 October 1909, p. 548; Budapest, Japan and India: Tornai Gyula , Mucsarnok, 1909,no. 12; Paur Geza, 'Tornai Exhibition on Japan and India,' VasarnapiUjsag , 10 October 1909, pp. 849-850; Kovacs Agnes: 'Dancing Geisha. About Tornai's Oriental Paintings', Artmagazin , 2008, vol. 2, pp. 56-64. Born in 1861 in Görgö, Gyula Tornai received his artistic educationat the academies in Vienna, Munich and in Benczur's studio inBudapest. He exhibited in London, Paris and in the Budapest ArtGallery in 1909 and in the National Salon in 1917. He began hiscareer painting the genre scenes that were so popular in the lastquarter of the 19th Century, but after his travels to India, China,Japan and Morocco his themes changed to depictions of the variedand exotic places and customs of those destinations. Tornai stayedin Tangier from 1890 to 1891 and in 1900 he exhibited pictures inthe Exposition Universelle in Paris to great acclaim. In 1904, Tornai offered a significant number of works from thesejourneys for sale in Budapest in order to finance an artisticadventure to India and Japan. The sale of the paintings was a greatsuccess and in the summer of 1905 the artist set off for the FarEast. He began his Japanese foray by painting a portrait of theformer Japanese prime-minister Count Okuma, and with thisinfluential patron, Tornai was allowed access to aspects ofJapanese life which were often hidden from Europeans at the timeand enabled the artist to delve deeply into the world of Buddhismand Shintoism. Over the next sixteen months, Tornai traveledthroughout the Land of the Rising Sun and visited Nara, Kyoto,Nikko and Nagoya. Upon his return from this two year journey which included a tour inIndia, the artist gathered together sixty large canvases andseveral studies and sent them on exhibition through several majorEuropean cities, including London, Paris, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzigand finally Budapest in the autumn of 1909. In his own words,Tornai described this painting in the exhibition catalogue: 'Item12: Japanese princess going to church. Her servants stay outside inthe yard waiting for their lady, and prostrate themselves in prayerfor Buddha. The princess on the painting is the mikado's eldersister whose authority demanded even Europeans prostrate themselvesin respect a few years ago.' The painting depicts the elder sister of Mutsuhito, Emperor ofJapan from 1867 to 1912, accompanied by her servants as she entersa Buddhist shrine. Executed in the vivid colors so characteristicof the artist and painted on a heroic scale, A Japanese princessgoing to church is a tour-de-force of color andcomposition. The colorful kimonos of the ladies-in waiting as wellas their varied positions create an energy in the foreground of thepainting that is carried up the steps of the shrine to the figureof the princess, her head bowed in devotion. The swirling colors ofher richly-decorated kimono echo the curve of the staircase as wellas the ornamental carving of the doorway to the shrine. In thispainting, Tornai has given the viewer a glimpse into a worldtotally foreign to the European sensibility and despite the broadbrushstrokes and dynamism of composition the artist has created aworld of hushed devotion and reverence.
Gyula, Jules Tornai - Indian Procession With Elephant
Original
Auction:
Sotheby's -
Nov 24, 2009- London
Lot number:
127
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LOT 127
PROPERTY OF A BRITISH PRIVATE COLLECTOR
GYULA TORNAI
HUNGARIAN, 1861 - 1928
INDIAN PROCESSION WITH ELEPHANT
7,000—9,000 GBP
measurements
70 by 87.5cm., 27½ by 34½in.
Description
signed TORNAI. GY. lower left
oil on canvas
Acquired by the father of the present owner in the 1950s
Gyula, Jules Tornai - The Golden Temple
Original 1861
Auction:
Christie's -
Oct 6, 2009- London
Lot number:
286
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THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
SIGNED GYULA TORNAI (1861-1928), HUNGARY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH
CENTURY
Oil on canvas, depicting the Golden Temple of Amritsar reflected in
what is known as the 'pool of nectar', behind numerous buildings,
signed in the lower right hand corner, framed
27¾ x 20 1/8in. (70.5 x 51cm.)
Gyula Tornai was a pre-eminent Hungarian Orientalist painter,
who as well as travelling through and painting images of the Middle
East, also worked on a number of Indian subjects such as the
present work. He was born Julius Grossmann at Gyöngös in what is
modern-day Hungary but finished his formal training in
Munich.