For this retrospective in France, the Petit Palais aims to showcase his profound originality. Neither a Naturalist, a Symbolist, an Impressionist, a Nabi, nor a Fauvist, but a little of all these at once, he epitomizes late-century cosmopolitanism through the breath of his cultural knowledge. A founding member of an artists’ colony working in the heart of the Hungarian countryside, Ferenczy made plein-air painting one of his best-known practices. He advocated for the collective as an artistic ideal and sought in nature the expression of a syncretic spirituality. Under his brush, the sun frequently became the leading protagonist in landscapes bearing his own distinctive hallmark.
Featuring almost one hundred and forty pieces, this exhibition reveals the multiple facets of his approach: landscapes, portraits, family scenes, biblical subjects, nudes, and caricatures, while highlighting his fundamental role in the emergence of a Hungarian Modernist art school.
Genreral curator
- Annick Lemoine, Head Curator, Director of the Petit Palais
Specialist curators
- Ferenc Gosztonyi, Art Historian, Project Manager and Museologist at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI)
- Réka Krasznai, Head Curator, Head of Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hungarian National Gallery
- Edit Plesznivy, Head Curator, Head of 19th and 20th Hungarian Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hungarian National Gallery
- Baptiste Roelly, Heritage Curator, Head of Drawings, Prints, Manuscripts, and Ancient Books at the Petit Palais
This exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and the Hungarian National Gallery.
The exhibition wad made possible thanks to the 
The opening of this exhibition is supported by Maison Vranken Pommery.
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