Munkácsy paintings to be shown in Ukraine, Romania

Hungarian businessman Imre Pákh has changed his plans and has not taken 29 paintings by 19th-century painter Mihály Munkácsy back to New York. Instead, he plans to put them on display in Mukacevo, Ukraine next spring and in a Transylvanian city in the fall of next year. Pákh became known in Hungary as an adviser to former Smallholder chairman József Torgyán a few years ago.

The roving exhibition of Munkácsy's paintings has been seen by over half a million museumgoers in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs, and Kaposvár, and is now on display in Békéscsaba. Pákh told Népszabadság that he will not take his paintings home until at least one million Hungarians have seen them.

The show will travel to Miskolc and then on to Szombathely. Pákh is engaged in talks with four other Hungarian cities on staging more exhibitions.

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