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Twice a Kossuth Prize winner, this artists has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts for many years. Besides his teaching, he did valuable theoretical work, popularizing in his writings the appreciation of sculpture and art.
His "Woman Cutting Bread" shows the ceremonious act of everyday life. It is a noble symbol of life-giving bread. The natural forms of the statue are saturated with poetic tenderness, and the proportions of the female figure are attractive. Pál Pátzay has sought "beauty" in a classic sense. With a radiant face the woman goes through the symbolic act, and her action becomes ceremonious without any liturgical overtones. The theme can be traced back to the ancient motifs in fine arts and iconographic traditions, though the statue is very much a work of modern times. Later Pál Pátzay made a larger version of his statue, which was erected at Kapuvár, his native town.
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