Mária Modok

Mária Modok (1896 –1971) was a Hungarian painter.

Early life and education Modok was born on 27 September 1896 in Ráckeve, in Pest County, Hungary. Her parents were István Modok and Mária Matyók. She attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1919 and 1923, where she was a student of István Réti, and went to the free school at the Nagybánya artists' colony, then in eastern Hungary, in 1923. This influenced her earlier work, which was in a naturalistic Nagybánya style. In 1930, she became a member of the New Society of Artists, and from that year she was an exhibiting artist. During the 1930s, while living in the Hungarian town of Szentendre, she travelled to Paris several times to study at private schools. During that period, she mainly created landscapes and large-scale cityscapes, inspired by Paris, such as the banks of the river Seine and Parisian sailboats. In 1937, she exhibited in the exhibition called Les femmes artistes d'Europe, the first international all-woman art show in France, held at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 1940 she married the painter Béla Czóbel, a highly regarded Hungarian artist.

Death Modok died on 20 March 1971 in Budapest. She and her husband are buried together in Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest. A retrospective exhibition was held in Esztergom, Hungary in 1974. Her work can be seen in the Czóbel Museum, Szentendre and at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.