
In September and October 1902 an unusual exhibition took place at the Art Hall in Budapest: the exhibition of the Budapest Doctors’ Association. It was an unusual exhibition featuring several hundred paintings from the private collections of various doctors. Most of these paintings were shown there for the first time, and it was considered quite sensational. One of the doctors was Lajos Petz from Györ, a former classmate of Alajos Alois Unger’s nephew of the same name. Petz was also a famous art collector. He had sent a dozen paintings of otherwise unknown masters to the exhibition, among them a few showing playing-card playing scenes plus a pub scene painted by Unger in Netherlandish style. I shall write more about this exhibition and this painting soon.
