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Having Lunch
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Vilmos Aba-Novak
A quiet, warmly painted mealtime scene by Vilmos Aba-Novak, hand reproduced in oil on canvas to bring its earthy palette and visible brushwork into your own home.
Description
Description
Critics writing on Hungarian modernism have long returned to Having Lunch as a demonstration of how much dignity a plain meal can hold when a painter refuses to sentimentalise it. Vilmos Aba-Novak set the scene without ceremony, and generations of viewers since have read into it a quiet argument for the worth of ordinary labour and ordinary rest. That reading survives because the picture itself keeps supplying evidence for it.
About Having Lunch
The composition centers on figures gathered around food, their postures unguarded, their attention turned inward toward the table rather than outward toward the viewer. Aba-Novak builds the scene from thick, confident strokes of paint, letting the brush itself register the weight of an arm or the fold of a sleeve rather than smoothing such details into polish. The palette runs warm and earthbound, browns and ochres shot through with occasional deeper colour, so that even a still moment carries physical heat.
This handling places the work within the artist engagement with Hungarian genre painting of the interwar years, when peasant and working life were taken up by modernists as subjects equal to any grander theme. Aba-Novak brought an expressionist urgency to that tradition, favouring gesture and texture over careful finish, and Having Lunch shows that instinct at a domestic scale, intimate rather than monumental, but no less resolved in its paint handling.
The hand-painted reproduction
A hand-painted oil painting reproduction of this scale suits a dining room or a kitchen wall, somewhere the ritual it depicts can echo the ritual happening in the room, and it holds up equally well under the low, warm light of evening or the flatter light of midday. ByMuseum artists produce each oil on canvas reproduction by hand, matching the earthy palette of the original and preserving the raised, uneven quality of the brushwork, so the surface still catches light the way painted texture does rather than the way a flat print does. The result is a physical object built through layered oil colour, not a reproduction assembled by machine.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
Delivery up to 25 days
Worldwide shipping included. Each painting is produced to order and safely packed for international transport.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
Insured Express Delivery
We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 4–5 business days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
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