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The portrait indicates that Tihanyi was in close connection with Hungarian literary life and artists around Ady, a great contemporary poet. Béla Révész, a senior editor of journals on literature, was known to be Tihanyi's friend. The painter always worked with his models. Reality of view was balanced by inner sight and imagination. As an expressionist, he destorted faces following his intuitions in order to emphasize intellect by accentuating the forehead. Eyes with a chestnut form as was Tihanyi's style, look meditatively in the distance, and grave and bitter features dominate the face of Révész, author of "Wriggling Villages". Light comes from the left as was usual in Tihanyi's case, making the face plastic which is highlighted by a neutrally blue contrast of clothes and background. With expressive porraits from 1910, Tihanyi continues an approach to portraits represented by Greco and Modigliani, to some extent by Kokoschka.
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