Sándor Szopos

Sándor Szopos painted portraits in early 20th-century Hungary, leaving two small but sharp studies on canvas. “Szentkereszthy Béla” (1929) shows a man in a dark suit, lit from the side like a studio photograph, while his “Autoportret” catches the artist’s own face half in shadow. Both pictures feel private, as if the sitters forgot the painter was there. Next, try the rough edges of the same era in “Szentkereszthy Béla.”