The exhibition at the BÁV Art Auction House and Gallery until November 12 features items on loan from the Hungarian National Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Applied Arts, the Hungarian National Gallery and the Museum of Military History. The special feature of these works of art is that at some point they entered our public collections through BÁV Zrt.
The large-scale exhibition was welcomed by János Latorcai. The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly reminded that lending, including the provision of collateral, the granting of loans against collateral, is almost as old as mankind and predates the development of financial management by many millennia.
He added:
when the legal predecessor of BÁV Zrt. was founded 250 years ago, they laid down basic principles that determine the company’s operation to this day.
At the opening, Elek Nagy, the chairman of the board of BÁV, emphasized the extent of the intertwining of finance and art. However, walking through the exhibition, you can see that the last quarter of a millennium of the history of the Hungarian nation can be seen through the art and cultural history of the exhibition.
László L. Simon, director general of the Hungarian National Museum, highlighted
that the institution, which has a century-old relationship with BÁV, lent 113 works of art – almost half of the exhibited objects – to the jubilee exhibition. Top quality pieces from the Eötvös collection, the glass-ceramic collection, the watch collection, the weapon collection and the medal collection were brought.
At the exhibition, you can see a piece of the Hungarian coronation mantle, which was bought by the Hungarian National Museum at a record price at the time. The XIX the self-portrait of Bertalan Székely, one of the most important painters of 19th-century Hungarian romanticism, was also included in the exhibition.
Photo: Árpád Kurucz / Source: Magyar Nemzet
In addition to these art treasures, you can also see the masterpieces of our industrial artists, the impressive works of our goldsmiths, historical relics and unique curiosities.
Photo: Árpád Kurucz / Source: Magyar Nemzet
The exhibited paintings, graphics, furniture, silverware, jewelry, watches, coins, glass and porcelain objects, ceramics, fans and textile objects give a glimpse of the diversity that BÁV represents in the art trade.
The exciting selection is also extraordinary because it shows how valuable art collectors and art collections are in our cultural memory, how important their fair trade is, and how significant is the possibility that our national values can easily find their way to our common collections through public art trade.
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