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Genre picture

Peasant with Pipe and Wheelbarrow 1891

An old man standing full-length, wearing jacket, waistcoat and shirt, pale trousers tucked into heavy labourer’s boots, smoking a pipe, pushing a wheelbarrow

Oil on canvas, 33 x 23 cm (13 x 9 in.)

Inscribed lower right: László F. 1891

De László's best known genre pictures were painted in Ó-Becse, in southern Hungary (now Bečej in Serbia). The artist spent three consecutive summers there (1889-91) at the invitation of his friend and early patron, Dr. Pál Grünbaum. During his early career the artist was much preoccupied with depicting rural life, courting couples and water-carrier children, such as Little Lidi [6058]. For more about Dr. Grünbaum and Ó-Becse see [11463] and about the early genre pictures painted there see [6058].

PROVENANCE:           

Sold BÁV (Consignment Store Company), Budapest, Auction 50, May 1980, lot 129;

Sold BÁV (Consignment Store Company), Budapest, Auction 77, December 1988, lot 108

BS 2014