page_title: Ilka Gedő
section_title: Table Series (1949)
hierarchical_section_title: Ilka Gedő / The Period Between 1945 and 1948 / Table Series (1949)
caption_attribution_description: English: ilka Gedő Table 6,1949, black ink on tan lightweight paper, 324 x 324 mm, British Museum
context_page_description: Ilka Gedő was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Her work survives decades of persecution and repression, first by the semi-fascist regime of the 1930s and 1940s and then, after a brief interval of relative freedom between 1945 and 1949, by the communist regime of the 1950s to 1989. In the first stage of her career, which came to an end in 1949, she created a huge number of drawings that can be divided into various series. From 1964 on, she resumed her artistic activities creating oil paintings. "Ilka Gedő is one of the solitary masters of Hungarian art. She is bound to neither the avant-garde nor traditional trends. Her matchless creative method makes it impossible to compare her with other artists."
context_section_description: The subject of these drawings, a small and always visible table is prosaic, it is always at hand. The lines on these drawings are never the contour of the closing of an area: they always move, thus liberating mysterious energies.
caption: Ilka Gedő Thonet Table, 1949, the British Museum
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