DLA009-0029 Translation
MAGYAR NEMZET[1]
My dear Friend,
I enclose my merry little article, which you may not have seen (the opposition newspapers anxiously avoid Vienna).
Just imagine, I have no news from P[illegible, but probably referring to the Director of the National Museum]. I don’t know whether this is a museum or a [illegible] market.
I think a painting by Paál[2] should be worthy of getting into a museum.
I would ask you, when you have the opportunity, to write something about this matter – this would crown the affair.
Yours sincerely,
Béla Lázár.
Pd’O
03/04/2009
&
BS
[1] A centre-left newspaper
[2] László Paál (1846-1879), landscape painter and friend of Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900); worked in Barbizon. In 1903, Béla Lázár published Paál László, Budapest, Lampel Róbert (Wodianer F. és Fiai). In 1904, the French translation was published as Ladislas de Paál: un peintre hongrois de l’école de Barbizon, Paris, Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne.