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10 000 Forint Pál Szinyei Merse
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a three-quarter portrait bust of the Hungarian painter Pál Szinyei Merse, depicted wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a jacket, set against an impressionistic woodland background of birch tree trunks and foliage rendered in low relief. The vertical legend 'SZINYEI MERSE PÁL' appears along the left side of the field, accompanied by his birth and death years '1845-1920'. A designer's monogram is visible in the lower right field. The composition conveys a painterly, artistic quality befitting the commemoration of one of Hungary's foremost plein-air masters. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1845-1920 SZINYEI MERSE PÁL |
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Pál Szinyei Merse completed his most celebrated canvas, the Majális (Picnic in May), in 1873 — decades before Hungarian audiences were ready for it. The Budapest art establishment rejected its proto-Impressionist handling of light so decisively that Szinyei Merse essentially abandoned painting for over twenty years, retreating to his estate in Jernye. It was only in the early 1900s, after French Impressionism had reoriented European taste, that the work was retroactively recognized as a foundational achievement in Hungarian art history.
This commemorative was issued on the 175th anniversary of his birth.