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István Csók lived for nearly a century, and his art is full of "joi de vivre" and love of nature. After studying at Munich, he spent a productive decade in Páris. His early works are characterized by the filtered light of naturalism and later by a more powerful representation of sunlight, and inspired throughout by folk art.
One of the masterpieces of his Paris period is the "Studio Interior". It was first exhibited in the Paris Salon and later in the Budapest Art Hall, and the same year the State purchased it and presented it to Museum of Fine Arts. His theme is classic, the composition restless. Csók is painting a nude model in his studio and he shows himself in the mirror on the left and the model lying in the foreground on the couch. The brilliant execution of details, the rich array of colours, ranging from pearl gray to blues and reds, and the fluent, delicate handling of the subject compensate for the elaborate, rather affacted composition.
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