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In the mid-1890s the earliest works by Fényes, done in the style of nineteenth-century genre paintings, were received with enthusiasm; in the paintings of the series Poor People's Lives, he developed from 1898 on a new kind of realism that was free of previous romantic elements. Concomitantly, his palette underwent a considerable change; his grouping of day labourers, mothers and children grew more and more colourful. The first great period of Fényes's art, represented by the Poor People's Lives, lasted until nearly 1907.