With the purchase of Ludwig Tihanyi’s Point St Michel Paris 1908, Adam and Eve painting and the record price, we can raise the Hungarian work of an important era to an international context, said Eleni Korani.

On Sunday evening, Lajos Tihanyi's painting St. was sold at the auction for two hundred and sixty-four million forints ( approx. 1 million Dollars ) The last bid of the Tihany masterpiece, which is of outstanding Hungarian and international significance, was made by the Ernst Gallery, so the painting can be included in one of the art collections maintained by Ernst Wastl and Eleni Korani.

Tihanyi's works from this period are outstanding pieces of Hungarian Favuism, and are important elements of the universal art canon both from a Hungarian and international point of view. The price is also significant because so far only the works of Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka and Mihály Munkácsy have come close to the dream limit of two hundred million on the Hungarian art market. At this auction, this was doubled, because next to Tihanyi, the highlight of the auction was a Csontváry painting, which was almost 100 million forints surpassed by the bid of the Tihanyi painting.

“Ernst Gallery believes in the power of Hungarian painters and art. In recent years, we have also worked to bring the masterpieces of Hungarian painters to international and Hungarian private collections, exhibitions and foreign museums, thus aging Hungary's reputation. With the purchase of the Tihanyi masterpiece and the record price, we can raise the Hungarian works of an important era to an international context. Ernst Gallery and its customers believe in this. We are proud that these two wonderful works will be part of a collection in which Hungarian art will have a worthy place. We think the price is significant because it can define the auction market for the next ten years as much as Mihály Munkácsy's painting ’Dusty Road’.