Étienne (István) Béothy was a Hungarian artist working in Paris, where he applied his architectural training to abstract art and became a founder of the influential Abstraction-Création group.
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Étienne (István) Béothy was a Hungarian artist working in Paris, where he applied his architectural training to abstract art and became a founder of the influential Abstraction-Création group.
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ÉTIENNE BÉOTHY (1897 - 1961)
“OPUS 17 - FEMME 1”
bronze relief, 41 x 20 x 3.5cm (16 x 8 x 1 1/4in)
signed lower left side, “E.Beothy”
numbered 1 of 8,
with “Clementi, Meudon. Cire Perdue” foundry mark
conceived in 1925
EXHIBITED:
Béothy, Galerie Sacre du Printemps, Paris, 1928
Unigarische Avant-Garde, Galeria del Levante, Milan, 1971
Unigarische Avant-Garde, Galerie Werner Kunze, Berlin, 1972
Rétrospective Béothy, Musée Marl, Germany,1979
Les Années UAM 1929-1958, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1988
LITERATURE:
The original plaster work appears in the Hungarian photographer André Kertesz’s famous image Satiric Dancer (1926), taken in Beothy’s studio.
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