Modern and Contemporary Art Self-Portrait Made in Hungary, Europe1913 Margit Pogany, Hungarian, 1879 - 1964 Oil on cardboard Currently not on view 1966-173-1 Purchased with the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund, 1966 |
ProvenanceMrs. Y. Gellert, Hartwell, Victoria, Australia (the artist's sister), from the artist [1]; sold to the PMA through her grandson, A. S. Forgas, Mt. Waverley, Victoria, Australia, June 13, 1966 [2]. 1. According to her great-nephew A. S. Forgas, Margit Pogany lived in Paris (except for a sojourn in her native Hungary from the start of World War I to 1922) until 1948, when she moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she lived until her death in 1964. 2. See copies of correspondence with A. S. Forgas in curatorial file. |
