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Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Exacting images by Istvan Sandorfi

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Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Istvan Sandorfi was born in 1948 in Budapest, Hungary. Since the age of ten he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs.

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Sandorfi’s painting style, which blends a meticulous realistic technique with elements of surrealism, has been featured for the past three decades in important European galleries.

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

His provocative draped figures and still-lifes appear in important private collections and museums on several continents, notably Centre Georges Pompidou,Musee de la Ville de Paris, Kunsthalle in Nuremberg, and the Taiwan Museum of Art, among others. Sandorfi died in December, 2007 in Paris.

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi

Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne)…

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