Ben Uri Collection

Night Scene in Capri

Artist information

Name Marcel Ronay (1910-1998)

Born Budapest, Hungary

Died England

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Ronay was born in Budapest, one of five children. His father was a Romanian Jew and his mother a Catholic from Hungary. In 1915 the family moved first to Berlin and then, after a brief return to Budapest (1918), they settled in Vienna (1922). In 1928, Ronay was invited to study at the Kunstgewerbe Schule under Professor Eugene Steinhof. In 1931 Ronay won the State Prize for Painting (1931) for Monks and Nuns, a work depicting a high profile orgy that took place in Austria. The award was subsequently revoked due to the content. Ronay spent most of his life working in the family business, designing and decorating porcelain jewellery. Most of his artwork was completed before he came to in England in 1936. In England he established 'Ronay Studios' in St Peter's Square, Hammersmith where he held an exhibition in 1943. The following year (1944) Ronay married Czech-born Anita Jellinek in Chiswick. They had a son, Andrew and a daughter, Barbara. During the 1950s and 1960s Ronay mostly painted landscapes of the English counryside but in the 1970s reverted to carving. Ronay's work has been exhibited at the Vienna Secession and The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Ronay died in 1998.

Object Details

Date 1931

Object type painting

Medium oil on canvas

Materials and techniques oil (medium) canvas (support)

Unframed 74 x 39.5 cm

Framed 86.5 x 75.9 cm

Signed and dated (lower left): M Ro 31

Acquisition presented by the artist 1986

Accession number 1987-335

Display status not on display

Keywords

beach | night | painting | sea | ship

Selected exhibition history

2018
Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum


Literature

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013); The Life and Works of Marcel Ronay, exhibition catalogue (Surrey, 2010); Walter Schwab and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 87.

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