Basil Rákóczi Contemporary Original Oil Start Price GBP 4,500.00 Current Price GBP 4,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, August 30, 2008 End Time Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Location Bristol See more about 'Basil Rákóczi Contemporary Original Oil ' Description Style   Basil Rákóczi style varies greatly as he believed to explore psychological aspects of his work. As a result, his painting have a very mordernist yet unique style that is only repeated within the group he formed and ran, The White Stag. He primarily used oil and gouache as a medium but frequently worked with monotype and watercolour and ceramics for tile designs.   Autobiography   Basil Rakoczi also wrote an autobiography that details his highly unusual and varied life. There are currently no planned publications of this autobiography though a biography is rumoured to being worked upon.    Exhibitions and Auctions   In the Summer of 2005, his paintings were displayed at the Irish Museum of Modern Art along with other White Stag works very successfully. Further exhibitions are in planning at locations currently unknown.   As Basil Rakoczi sold his paintings as he worked it is not unknown for his work to appear in auctions from all around the world (most recently Canada). This has kept a steady interest in his work that is only set to rise with the amount of exhibitions that are also taking place. The painting offered was purchased from auction and has been appraised in Dublin Ireland as a desirable and interesting work   Basil Rákóczi has featured in over 150 exhibitions, of which more than 60 have been solo shows. His first commercial show was in 1935, a small exhibition at the Artificer’s Guild in Cambridge, of which he wrote about his “excitement and nervousness.”   He has also had one man shows in London, Manchester, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, Brussels, New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, and many other places.   He exhibited regularly at the Irish Museum of Living Art from 1944 to 1960, at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin from 1942 to 1952 and at the Watercolour Society of Ireland from 1941 to 1950, and more recently his work was included in a show in 2004.   He has art works in public collections across the globe including:   Brighton, University of Sussex Derby, City Art Gallery Manchester, City Art Gallery Dublin, Trinity College Belfast, Ulster Museum Queensland, Australia, National Collection Auckland, City Art Gallery   A limited edition copy of his book ‘The Caged and the Free’ is with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London   More recently Rákóczi featured in a major exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2005 entitled The White Stag Group. He would have been just as nervous and excited as he was at that first show if he had been alive to see it!   This is a genuine piece of work and sold reluctantly due to change in circumstance.     Place a Bid!