# Endre Bálint artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-27T22:00:17.259Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1914-10-27
- Nationality: Hungarian
- Movements: Hungarian avant-garde, Modern Hungarian art
- Common media: painting, graphic design, printmaking

## About Endre Bálint

Endre Bálint (1914–1986) was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist, printmaker, and critic recognized as one of the most significant figures of modern, avant-garde Hungarian art. Born in Budapest, he studied at the Hungarian School for Applied Arts under Ferenc Helbing from 1930 to 1934, then trained in the private painting schools of János Vaszary and Vilmos Aba Novák. In 1947 Bálint traveled to Paris, where he exhibited and encountered the ideas of Fernand Léger and André Breton, experiences that informed his evolving visual language. His practice spans painting, graphic design, and printmaking, and his work bridges early-twentieth-century Hungarian modernism with the broader European avant-garde. Collectors encounter Bálint's pieces most often in Central European auction contexts and through Hungarian gallery and museum holdings.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Bálint's oil paintings on canvas and panel, graphic-design works and posters, and prints and works on paper including drawings. His subjects range across abstract and figurative compositions reflecting Hungarian modernist and avant-garde tendencies. Condition, edition size (for prints), and documented provenance are practical factors to assess when a work comes to appraisal.

## Market and appraisal context

Bálint's works appear in auction primarily as paintings, graphic works, and prints. Key factors that influence appraisal include the specific medium, the work's date relative to his pre-war training and post-war Paris engagement, provenance linking to Hungarian collections or exhibitions, and condition. Without a published catalogue raisonné, attribution should draw on documented exhibition and RKD records. Collectors should verify specific lots against live auction databases, as public price-range data was not available in this research pass.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from authority files and institutional databases with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Endre Bálint, sources include the Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, Wikidata, and Wikipedia.

## Sources

- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/4040
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q852788
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96317860/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500087765
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endre_B%C3%A1lint
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81028996