The exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts entitled Cézanne and the past – which can be visited from 26 October 2012 to 17 February 2013 – presents the life's work of the French painter together with its artistic predecessors. This is the first ever exhibition of the Post-Impressionist artist in Hungary.

At the opening, the Prime Minister highlighted that such a period of crisis is the best time to invest in culture, adding that the present exhibition shows that we are able to organise a world class cultural event in Hungary.

According to museum director László Baán, this will be the most significant exhibition of the museum’s one-hundred year history. He recalled that the preparations for the exhibition were kept in high regard by the Hungarian state as well; Parliament, for instance, has recently amended the law to increase the limits for state guarantees.

The exhibition will present more than a hundred oil paintings, aquarelles and drawings of Cézanne displayed in parallel with 40 works of his predecessors. Among others, the only work by Cézanne permanently displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts (Buffet), works on loan from the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay of Paris, the National Gallery, the British Museum and the Tate Modern of London, the Uffizi of Florence, the Albertina of Vienna, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles Getty Museum will be exhibited.

(Prime Minister’s Office)