„Ez az élet, amely művészeknek van teremtve egyedül.” Vida Árpád Párizsban (1910–1911)
"This Life, Created for Artists Alone”: Árpád Vida in Paris (1910-1911)

Summary/Abstract: Árpád Vida (1884-1915) was a painter born in Marosvásárhely (Târgu-Mureş), with regard to whose Parisian stay and studies – in the years 1910-1911, following his studies in Bu da pest – our sources are very scarce, save for a few terse letters. His works completed during this period are characterized by a kind of relaxed French painterliness, ranging from scenes set outdoors or in dark nighttime cafés, bearing impressionist influences, to drawings with fauvist traits, their approach be ing mostly determined by the directions of the French salon painting of the period. The present study tries to offer a more accurate depiction of the “pale pink with silver filigree” Paris of the Transylvanian artist, mainly with the help of his contemporaries’ accounts and memoirs, as well as through the artist’s Parisian works, either preserved or known through photographs.

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