<p>“I do not know why, how long / can I thus remain for you / but I hold your lovely hand / and I guard your lovely eyes.” – everyone knows the lines written by Endre Ady to his wife, the Csinszka-poems are part of the school curriculum. However, it is less known that Csinszka, after the death of Ady, lived with the painter, Ödön Márffy for almost one and a half decades and several masterpieces were born from this relationship. <br /><br />The story, firstly being processed on this exhibition, lasts from funeral to funeral, from the coffin of Ady to the tomb of Csinszka. The one and a half decades that passed between these events, however, are not that gloomy. The marriage of Márffy and Csinszka meant solace and settlement for both of them and was spent with mutual home-building. The villa of Szamóca Street, where they lived, with its idyllic surrounding was the main inspirational source of the painter. The French-educated Ödön Márffy, who previously became known as the painter of the avant-garde group, The Eight, altered his earlier, fauve-expressionist style and started to paint harmonically colourful paintings in the flavour of the decorative vision of the “Parisian school”. In the present exhibition, paintings were selected mainly from the artist’s “Csinszka-period”.<br /><br /></p>
