PAINTING TREASURE TROVE FIND! NAGY ATTILA + HAITIAN PAINTING w/UNUSUAL NAME + A RARE J. ROYBAL!

I found these at my local thrift store Thur. I was wondering your thoughts of the Agy Attila painting (I know it's dirty!)?

The haitian painting is beautiful but I can't find the artist anywhere - maybe I'm seeing it wrong? It looks like Lionel Mathirin(?) to me - but I can't find him & I am thinking he has to be known with talent to make this painting, right? (I also am a little worried that it doesn't sound like a Haitian name - please tell me they don't make "factory" Haitian paintings?!)

Finally I found a large (41" x 29") J Roybal painting with children & horses - I was only able to find 1 other painting by him with horses in it; more valuable?

As always thank you guys for your help - I'd be in trouble without this forum!

 

Aren't the Roybal paintings factory art? They've been on the boards before.

 

You forgot the N. His name is Nagy Attila, a Hungarian painter.
Hungarians put their surname first, so Attila is his first name, Nagy his surname.
Lovely painting of rural Hungary.

Attila Nagy:
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Atilla-Nagy/9D0A715056387C23

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/attila-nagy-7yvvou600d/sold-at-auction-prices/

 

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/from-the-comedy-department-i-give-you-joyce-roybal.64691/

@James Conrad needs to see puffy horses to go with his fascination with puffy people.

Note to Journey: Roybal is NOT a real person.

 

Except to Tahmoor girl.

 

Roybal factory paintings are attempting to imitate Graciela Rodo Boulanger:

https://www.google.com/search?q=graciela+rodo+boulanger+paintings&hl=en&tbm=isch&sxsrf=AOaemvKzKfqklIJNoTnCs94LAU_dotWqAw:1634993021538&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=580&ei=fQN0Ya77HYvVtAaexqmYBQ&oq=graciela+rodo+boulanger+paintings&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgBMgcIIxDvAxAnMgcIIxDvAxAnMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgARQuhZYuhZggixoAHAAeACAAZQBiAGUAZIBAzAuMZgBAKABAqABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img

How could we EVER forget her?

 

I had almost repressed the memory, but the puffy horses brought it all back to me.

 

Thanks - it was early (wanted to check on these before I put them in estate/garage sale)

 

You would be amazed at how much you can improve your eye by going to art museums from time to time.

 

It looks like Lionel Mathien to me.

 

I see Mathirin, like Journey. Mathirin is a French name, a variation on Mathurin, so a Haitian painter could have a surname like Mathirin.

 

Had to really enlarge it, but can see Mathirin now.

 

Someone who signs himself Nagy Attila has been copying pins from my Pinterest boards to his own.

 

Is there any way to stop that, Bronwen?

 

I thought that was standard practice. One reason why so many of the Pinterest entries are useless as sources of information.

For the painting, try this (don't know how accurate it is):
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/attil...painting-italian-street-scene-in-carved-frame

 

It is. You're supposed to feel flattered. Just a surprise to have encountered this name twice in a day.

BTW, in case anyone was unsure, I believe the name Nagy is pronounced 'nahj' in the original.

 

Correct. The way I have always heard it (as in Imre Nagy, for instance), the a sounds somewhere in between ah and oh.

 

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You seem to find quite a bit of Haitian art. Are you familiar with this organization, The Haitian Art Society? https://haitianartsociety.org/waterloo-center-for-the-arts They are based in Waterloo, Iowa (USA) at the Waterloo Center for the Arts, which they say has "the largest publicly held collection of Haitian artwork in the world."

They do have a directory of artists on that website but I don't find the one that signed your current painting.

 

I think I heard of it but I didn't expect it to be in Iowa!! I will send them a email with a photo to see if they know anything about the artist - he's pretty good to not be known!
Thank you!