Páholyban I (In the Box I)
Páholyban I (In the Box I) is an oil painting of about 1926-1928 by György Rauscher, held at the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria in Budapest. It is number 58 in the 1935 estate catalogue, the first of a pair (the second, Páholyban II, is known only from the 1935 installation photographs).
Two elegant women lean on the red front of a theatre box: one facing out, with an auburn bob, pearls, and a pale wrap; the other in profile beside her. A pair of opera glasses rests on the red ledge, and the lower ground is a warm ochre. The handling is soft and washy.
It is one of the society subjects of Rauscher’s later Hungarian years, on the threshold of the art-deco world he would develop in Berlin (see /biography/hungarian-years).
Record
- Archive ID: GR-0040
- Titles: Páholyban I (Hungarian); In the Box I (English)
- Year: c. 1926-1928
- 1935 catalogue number: 58
- Medium: oil painting on canvas
- Dimensions: 42 × 35 cm
- Signature: lower right, Rauscher
- Attribution: confirmed
- Documentation basis: primary, with image
- Location: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
- Period: Hungarian years, 1922-1928
- Exhibitions: 1935 Nemzeti Szalon estate exhibition, no. 58
- Literature:
/bibliography#szamado-2019;/bibliography#mng-paholyban
Cite this record
GR-0040, Páholyban I (In the Box I, c. 1926-1928), Magyar Nemzeti Galéria. The György Rauscher Archive, https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/paholyban-i (last reviewed 2026-06-03).
