My father Bela Ban

BÉLA BÁN The deliberately undertaken objective of the present exhibition is to make an attempt at rehabilitating Béla Bán in the history of art. This is necessary since the oeuvre of Bán had a narrow escape from getting lost in the history of XX century Hungarian art because of different subjective reasons and objective circumstances. After his emigration his works were preserved by his relatives but they had littIe publicity and the new pictures painted in France, Argentina and Israel remained mainly unknown the public and the profession. The recently renewed research of Hungarian art of the thirties and forties coincided with the resolution of Bán's descendants to present part of the legacy in their possession to present part of