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Márffy's long and successful career spanned six decades of this century. It began in 1907 with a joint exhibition with Gulácsy and continued until his death. At the beginning of his career, his political convictions linked him with the Group of Eight. His expressive ink drawings between 1910 and 1912 are milder, freer and less constructive than his paintings at that time.
To the radical artists of the 1910s, the generation of "Nyugat" (West) and the Group of Eight, the very name of the poet Endre Ady was a symbol. Almost all the significant artists attempted to portray him. The likeness was bought by the State Purchasing Committee in 1960. The transverse composition, the eyes looking restlessly out of the picture and the excited, muddled lines, softened by the wash, reflect the character of a man of lively intellect, always ready for controversial discussions.
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