Genre painting from the Art Deco time  with reading girl in a interior executed  by important hungarian artist Istvan Szasz ( Kolozsvar 1878 - Budapest 1965). He worked as  figure and landscape painter in Budapest from 1900 to 1950. He travelled to Italy and exhibited in Nemzeti Salon in Budapest since 1905.Our painting created in ca. 1920s-1930s.

Literature :  Thieme/Becker " Lexicon of Artists from Ancient to Contemporary" (in german) Leipzig, 1999;  Dr. Szabo-Kallai " Lexicon of Hungarian Artists" ( in hungarian), Budapest, 1997

Inscription: signed   lower left .

Technique: oil on canvas. Gold-plated  frame

Measurements: unframed w 39 1/3" x h 29 1/2" (100  x 75 cm), framed w 45 1/4" x h 35" (115 x 89  cm)

Condition:   very good