Touring Munkácsy exhibition reaches final destination

An important exhibition featuring numerous works of famed 19th-century Hungarian artist Mihály Munkácsy will open in Kecskemét on 15 February, writes stop.hu. While the show has already toured Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged, Békéscsaba, Szolnok, Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania), Munkács (Mukacheve, Ukraine) and Eger, the stop in Kecskemét is significant because it will be the first time the painting entitled "The Little Sugar Thief" (A kis cukortolvaj) will be displayed in Hungary, and it will be the last stop of the traveling exhibition.

The works presented at the exhibition are from the collection of Imre Pákh, a collector of Hungarian origins who lives in the United States, from the Munkácsy Mihály museum in Békéscsaba, and from the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery). Pákh's collection has been touring in the Carpathian Basin since 2005, and has been seen by 920,000 people. The Pákh collection contains 32 paintings to which other museums added their own Munkácsy works.

The exhibition, which can be seen at Kecskemét's Cifrapalota until 20 April, also includes a "study" charcoal for Munkácsy's well-known "Peasant House Interior" (Parasztház belseje), which was only recently identified.

In related news, renovations to the Munkácsy Museum in Békéscsaba have been completed. The museum boasts the world's most important collection of relics related to the artist, total of 223 documents and 208 other objects. Financing for the works was provided primarily by EU funds, reports hirextra.hu. The building itself is Neo-Classicist and dates back to 1914.

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