
Circus from Eastern European Prints
1969 · Etching, printed in black
plate: 9 1/4 × 8 1/2" (23.5 × 21.6 cm); sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 13/16" (55.2 × 42.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art

Béla Kondor was a Hungarian painter and printmaker working across abstraction and figuration during the postwar period. His practice engaged with modernist formal concerns while registering the political and social upheaval of mid-century Hungary. Active until his death in 1972, Kondor navigated the formal and ideological pressures of the Cold War era through his dual commitment to structural rigor and figural urgency.
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