Munkacsy’s Christ trilogy reunited in Hungary
Budapest (MTI) – Hungarian painter Mihaly Munkacsy’s famous Christ Trilogy was reunited in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, after Christ before Pilate (1881) arrived in the city’s Deri Museum on Tuesday.
Zoltan Balog, Hungary’s human resources minister, announced in February that the state had acquired the painting.
Debrecen mayor Laszlo Papp said the painting’s return was a historic event, and noted that the trilogy consisting of Christ before Pilate, Golgotha (1884) and Ecce Homo! (1896) was first united in Debrecen in 1995.
Papp thanked the government, the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) and the city’s lawmakers for their efforts in keeping the trilogy together. The state purchased Christ before Pilate with funding from the NBH’s programme to buy national art treasures, he said.
Fidesz MP and former Debrecen mayor Lajos Kosa said today’s event marked the end of a drawn-out process as Canadian law did not allow for the painting to be acquired any earlier.
Asked whether he thought the state could come to an agreement on purchasing Golgotha, which is in the ownership of Hungarian-born US art collector Imre Pakh, Kosa said he was “absolutely certain” that it could.
Munkacsy’s masterpiece was lowered into the museum by crane on Tuesday morning.
The paintings will be open to the public for viewing from next week.
Photo: MTI
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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