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Head of a Buddha

Lost Art-ID
616727
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Chinese (Tang Dynasty ?))
Title
Head of a Buddha
Dating
601/700 (?)
Object type
Sculpture
Group of reported objects
Sculpture
Material / Technique
Stone
Description
Keleti Művészeti Kiállítás [Oriental Art Exhibition], Magyar Gyűjtők és Művészetkedvelők Egyesülete [Association of Hungarian Collectors and Art Patrons] Iparművészeti Múzeum [Museum of Applied Arts] Budapest, 1929. No. 274, Plate X; Hatvany Bertalanné levele a Szépművészeti Múzeum Igazgatóságának,, Hatvany Józsefné, Hatvany Endre, Hatvany Bertalan, Hatvany Lilly, és Hatvany Antónia nyilasok és németek által elhurcolt javaikról [Letter of Mrs. Bertalan Hatvany to the Directorate of the Museum of Fine Arts about the assets taken by the Nyilas and Nazis of Mrs. József Hatvany, Endre Hatvany, Bertalan Hatvany, Lilly Hatvany, Antónia Hatvany] March 21, 1947, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary, 369/1947. No. A/1 („big head”,and as „hair curles newly carved”); Bertalan Hatvany levele az elveszett főbb műtárgyainak listájával a Veszélyeztetett Magángyűjtemények Miniszteri Bizottságának [Letter of Bertalan Hatvany with a list of the more important lost works of art to the Ministerial Commission of Endangered Art Collections] July 9, 1947. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XIX-J-13-332-1947, No. 18; List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 23 („the curls are anew sculpted”); Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 214, No. 16568; Fajcsák, Györgyi, Bertalan Hatvany, an Unknown Connoisseur of Oriental Art In: Ars Decorativa 23, Budapest, 2004, 55-71.
Provenance

Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown

It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.

Published since
21.12.2023
Contact
Agnes Peresztegi
Position
Avocat
E-Mail
agnes@peresztegi.com
Circumstances of loss reported as
unresolved
Search Request, Person

Hatvany, Bertalan

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