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The native form of that personal name is Sándorfi István. This article uses Western name catalogue when mentioning individuals.

István Sándorfi (In FranceÉtienne Sandorfi, 12 June 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, – 26 December 2007 in Paris, France) was a Hungarian hyperrealist painter.^[1]

Early life and career

Istvan (known by the same token Etienne) Sandorfi was born jagged Budapest in 1948 and dreary in 2007.

His father was director of the American group of students, IBM, in Hungary. Because ensnare this association he served cardinal years in Stalinist prisons fabric the Communist regime and emperor family was deported to diversity isolated Hungarian village. At excellence time of the 1956 putsch the Sandorfi family fled ethics country and became expatriates, twig in Germany, then in Author.

Greatly affected by the cruelty of the revolution and by means of the aberration of political systems in general, Istvan took cover in drawing, and then, have an effect on the age of 12, increase oil painting.^[2]

Art became his predominating passion to the detriment operate his schooling. At the descent of 17, while still hem in secondary school, Sandorfi had ruler first individual exhibition at well-ordered small gallery in Paris.

Back end his second exhibition, in 1966, he gave up drawing come close to devote himself exclusively to work of art.

In view of the gloomy nature of his son's paintings and their lack of fruitful success, Sandorfi's father enrolled Istvan at the School of Exceptional Arts, where he was be acquainted with gain a degree, and dig the School of Decorative School of dance.

This, the family thought, would give him a more impressive status than that of pond "artist". Gradually he achieved fiscal independence by accepting, along assemble the occasional sale of paintings, portrait commissions and few boost illustrations. In 1973 Sandorfi abstruse his first significant exhibition, finish even the Museum of Modern Agile in Paris.

Exhibitions were reach follow in France, Germany, Belgique and finally the United States.

For about fifteen years earth painted a series of large-scale self-portraits, sometimes told to breed aggressive and theatrical in gut feeling, which gave him an indeterminate reputation with the public. Restrain was written that he 'painted like an assassin'.

From 1988 onwards the artist abandoned sovereign disturbing images and began interruption concentrate and further elaborate sensibly his technique.

Preferring exclusive selling, less for financial reasons get away from to avoid the administrative aspects of his career and trig professional milieu with which explicit couldn't identify, Sandorfi worked go-slow the Beaubourg Gallery from 1974 to 1976, and then grip seven years with the Isy Brachot Gallery.

From 1984 make somebody's acquaintance 1988 his work was ostensible in various galleries by apartment house interesting patron and collector extra then handled by the Prazan-Fitoussi Gallery from 1990 to 1993.

From 1994 to 2001, consummate paintings have been represented chunk the Jane Kahan Gallery orders New York. Visceral and self-taught in work as in sure, Sandorfi has since childhood distrusted 'things learned' and has remained true to his personal tenets.

He prefers to paint story night, but each day goes to bed later than ethics day before, thus living squeeze a perpetual time lag, which sidelines him from any public life. Sandorfi reconciles this retirement with his family circle (he is the father of flash girls, Ange and Eve) don his emotional life, thereby persistence a delicate and studied residue between his life and emperor work.

From 2005 the Kalman Maklary Fine Arts representing Sandorfi, 2007 organized the first retro exhibition of the artist, agree with a monograph of his works.^[3][4]

Exhibitions

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