Reproduced:
The Art of Ilka Gedő (1921-1985), Budapest, Új Művészet Kiadó, 1997, Colour Plate No. 22
Provenance:
the artist's sons
LITERATURE
SZABÓ, JÚLIA: Gedő Ilka rajzai és festményei. Katalóguselőszó. (The Drawings and Paintings of Ilka Gedő. Catalogue Preface) István Király Múzeum katalóguss ( A Catalogue of the István Király Museum), Székesfehérvár, July, 1980
URY IBOLYA: Katalógus bevezető Gedő Ilka kiállításához (Catalogue Introduction: Ilka Gedő's Exhibition) Dorottya utcai Galéria, Budapest, July, 1982.
SPIRÓ GYÖRGY: Katalógus bevezető Gedő Ilka kiállításához (Catalogue Introduction: Ilka Gedő's Exhibition) Művésztelepi Galéria (Gallery of the Artists' Colony), Szentendre, June, 1985.
KOVÁCS, PÉTER: Ilka Gedő. In: Carrell Christopher (ed): Contemporary Visual Art in Hungary. Eighteen Artists from Hungary. Texts by Paul Overy and Péter Kovács. Published by Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and The István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár, October, 1985
PACKER, WILLIAM: Hungarian Arts in Glasgow, Financial Times, London, October 29, 1985
GYÖRGY, PÉTER - PATAKI, GÁBOR: Two Artists Rediscovered: Ilka Gedő and Béla Fekete Nagy. The New Hungarian Quarterly, Budapest, vol. 27, No. 101, 1986
SZABÓ, JÚLIA: Ilka Gedő's Paintings. The New Hungarian Quarterly, Budapest, 1987, winter.
MÉSZÁROS F. ISTVÁN: Hold-maszkok, tündöklő háromszögek Gedő Ilka (1921-1985) (Moon-Masks, Glittering Triangles. Ilka Gedő /1921-1985/) Nappali Ház, 1993. Vol. V No. III
SZABÓ JÚLIA: "A valóság mezében" Gedő Ilka művészetéről ("In the Guise of Reality" Ilka Gedő's Art) Új Művészet, 1993/5.
VIRBASIUS, MADELINE A.: Ilka Gedő. Hungarian Masterworks First Showing in New York. Cover Magazine, March, 1994
CENTURY, DOUGLAS: 100 Year in the Avant-Garde. Liberated From the Basements of Budapest, Hungarian Jewish Artists Arrive in New York. Forward, April, 1994
SEMJÉN ANITA (ed): Áldozatok és gyilkosok/ Gedő Ilka gettó-rajzai és Román György háborús bűnösök népbírósági tárgyalásán készített rajzai a budapesti Zsidó Múzeumban (Victims and Perpetrators/Ilka Gedő's Ghetto Drawings and György Román's Drawings of the People' Court of War Criminals at the Budapest Jewish Museum), közreadta (published by): The Cultural Exchange Foundation, Budapest, 1995
ELISABETH KASHEY (ed): Ilka Gedő (1921-1985) Drawings and Pastels (November 21st-December 29th, 1995) (An exhibition organized in cooperation with Janos Gat Gallery) Catalog by /Shepherd Gallery 21 East 84th Street, New York, N.Y. 10028/
GYÖRGY, PÉTER-PATAKI, GÁBOR, SZABÓ, JÚLIA, MÉSZÁROS F. ISTVÁN Gedő Ilka művészete (1921-1985) tanulmányai /The Art of Ilka Gedő (1921-1985) Studies BY PÉTER GYÖRGY-GÁBOR PATAKI, JÚLIA SZABÓ F. ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS/ Budapest, Új Művészet Kiadó, 1997
FITZ PÉTER (ed.): Kortárs Magyar Művészeti Lexikon, I. kötet, (Encyclopaedia of Present-Day Hungarian Art, Vol. I) Enciklopédia Kiadó, Budapest, 1999, The section describing the oeuvre of Ilka Gedő: pp. 704-706. (the authors: Lujza Havas and S. Nagy Katalin)
Exhibited
Gedő Ilka (1921-1985) kiállítása (1987. április 16 - május 17), MŰCSARNOK, BUDAPEST, HŐSÖK TERE, KIÁLLÍTÁST RENDEZTE ÉS A KATALÓGUST SZERKESZTETTE NÉRAY KATALIN (THE EXHIBITION WAS CURATED AND THE CATALOGUE EDITED BY KATALIN NÉRAY.) (THE PAINTING IS REFERRED TO ON PAGE 27 OF THE CATALOGUE.)
ILKA GEDŐ, PAINTINGS, PASTELS, DRAWINGS 1932-1985 (9 DECEMBER 1989 - 13 JANUARY 1990), Third Eye Centre - Glasgow (346-354 Sauchiehall Street) in association with the Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest and the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, item No. 227
Ilka Gedő is one of the solitary masters of Hungarian art. She is bound to neither avant-garde or traditional trends. Her unique creative method makes it impossible to compare her oeuvre to similar examples in art history. A number of Ilka Gedő's works are included in major public collections in Budapest (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Kiscelli Múzeum), New York (the Jewish Musem), London (the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum), Jerusalem (Jad Vashem and the Israel Museum) and Düsseldorf (the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Kunstmuseum) demonstrating the depth of the artist's creative vitality.
"Ilka Gedő had an unbelievably exalted relationship to colours, in which sensual and emotional elements were inseparably intertwined. For her, colours were the deeds of light and their victims (Goethe); they were not solely material factors, but spiritual and animated beings (Cézanne) with whom she could enter into relationship. (In one of her diaries in which she recorded the making of her paintings she writes, "The first thing I remembered was a Naple yellow made somewhat pale and cold in the green lights. All these are sad, but nevertheless, one is happy with them and one's thirst is quenched." Ilka Gedő's attitude toward colours is something like poetry: her works are in fact pieces of colour poetry....." (István F. Mészáros in: The Art of Ilka Gedő (1921-1985), Budapest, 1997, p. 77)