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A work by Noémi Ferenczy (1890, Szentendre - 1957, Budapest), the cartoon for the tapestry.
Noémi Ferenczy did not only design her tapestries, but she produced them, too. She passed on what she had learnt from her father, Károly Ferenczy, a leader of the Nagybánya art school: a lyric portayal of nature and an intimate connection between nature and man. Her works from the 1920 show that she was interested in depicting people in a monumental way while working, whereas she focused her attention on landscapes during 1935-45. "Harvest" is a product of this period. The hill which is depicted in a view from above fills the picture almost completely. The blue of the narrow strip of the sky enhances vine-roots glistening on this autumn day. The vine-roots do not cover each other, they are arranged in decorative rows running off the picture, thus they show how big this area is. The figure working in the first row is not individualized, it is in harmony with nature and so are plants themselves. The artist's devotion to nature is expressed in accordance with decorative rules, which is accompanied by a somewhat naive approach in "Forest", which comes from the year 1942. Noémi Ferenczy depicts the fern-like plants in the foreground, a clearing, in a narrative style of naive artists and with a clumsy charm. The road crossing diagonally the hill, the forest slightly off the picture, the mountains in the distance and the small figure of the wanderer show the dimensions of the landscape.
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