Szomory Dezső portréja (Portrait of Szomory Dezső)
Szomory Dezső portréja (Portrait of Szomory Dezső) is a 1927 oil painting by György Rauscher of the writer Szomory Dezső, held at the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria in Budapest. It is number 50 in the 1935 estate catalogue, and one of the defining portraits of his Hungarian years.
The portrait shows the writer seated in a white wicker chair, a monocle in one eye, holding a small black lapdog, in a turquoise jacket and grey trousers. The setting is a vivid interior of a deep red wall and a yellow floor, with a potted amaryllis on a dark stand at the right. The hands holding the dog are long and bony, the “skeletal hands” a Pesti Hírlap reviewer remarked on when the portrait was shown in 1927 (/bibliography#pesti-hirlap-1927-09-11).
The painting belongs to the cultivated-bourgeois strand of Rauscher’s New Objectivity, the writers and intellectuals of the Budapest literary world (see /biography/hungarian-years).
Rauscher worked the composition up from a preparatory study, now in the Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum. This page records the finished painting; the study has its own record, Study for the Portrait of Szomory Dezső.
Record
- Archive ID: GR-0048
- Titles: Szomory Dezső portréja (Hungarian); Portrait of Szomory Dezső (English)
- Year: 1927
- 1935 catalogue number: 50
- Medium: oil painting
- Sitter: the writer Szomory Dezső (1869-1944); see
/sitters/szomory-dezso - Attribution: confirmed
- Documentation basis: primary, with image
- Location: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest. The preparatory study is a separate work at the Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (see Study for the Portrait of Szomory Dezső).
- Period: Hungarian years, 1922-1928
- Exhibitions: 1927 Ernst Múzeum group exhibition; 1935 Nemzeti Szalon estate exhibition, no. 50
- Literature:
/bibliography#szamado-2019;/bibliography#mng-szomory;/bibliography#pesti-hirlap-1927-09-11
Cite this record
GR-0048, Szomory Dezső portréja (Portrait of Szomory Dezső, 1927), Magyar Nemzeti Galéria. The György Rauscher Archive, https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/szomory-dezso-1927 (last reviewed 2026-06-03).
