Artists

Lancelot Ney

Hungarian, 1900-1965

Lancelot Ney was born in Budapest Hungary .  He attended the school of fine arts in Budapest .  During the course of his travels in Germany he met with Kurt Schwitters and Moholy-Nagy.  He settled in Paris from 1923 and became friends with Michel Seuphor who introduced him to Mondrian.

Apart from the years immediately after World War II, Lancelot Ney’s work oscillates between Figuration and Abstraction.  At the Salon de Tuileries he was known primarily for his portraits, particularly portraits of children, his specialty, but also for landscapes depicting scenes from his travels in the south of France and Corsica around 1928.  He then alternated between the principles of Abstraction and those of Figuration.  After the war, with Abstraction out of fashion and no longer seen as outrageous, he spent his time producing works often reminiscent of Kadinsky while others were inspired by three dimensional art.

He exhibited in various annual Paris salons including the Salon des Tuileries and also had works selected for the Salon des Realites Nouvelles between 1947 and 1957.