Nicholas Hornyansky
(1896 - 1965) OSA, RCA
Previously Sold Works
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Towers of the University
aquatint in colours
signed and titled in the lower margin
5.25 x 4.5 ins ( 13.3 x 11.4 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $325.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Memorial Gate (University of Toronto)
colour aquatint
5.5 x 4.25 ins ( 14 x 10.8 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $325.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Quebec from the Citadel
colour etching
signed, titled and numbered 97/150 in the lower margin
8 x 6.75 ins ( 20.3 x 17.1 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $325.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Bishop Strachan School
etching
signed, titled and numbered 44/200 in the lower margin; unframed
6.5 x 4.5 ins ( 16.5 x 11.4 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: April 18th 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Dawn Dispels Darkness
colour etching
signed, titled and numbered 8/50 in the lower margin
14 x 16 ins ( 35.6 x 40.6 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 18th 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Holy Trinity Square (Toronto)
colour etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
4 x 5.25 ins ( 10.2 x 13.3 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: July 16th 2019
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Georgian Bay Church; Rockwood Mill
pair of colour etchings
each signed and titled in the lower margin
4.25 x 3.75 ins ( 10.8 x 9.5 cms ) ( each plate )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: May 12th 2020
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
St. Jean, Quebec
colour aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
6 x 9 ins ( 15.2 x 22.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $192.00
Sale date: August 15th 2023
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Rockwood Mill
colour aquatint
signed and titled lower margin
4.25 x 3.5 ins ( 10.8 x 8.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
St. Clement’s Church, North Toronto
colour aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
5.5 x 7 ins ( 14 x 17.8 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $75.00 - $125.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: December 12th 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Set of Four Prints
colour prints
“Mount McKay - at the Lakehead” (signed and titled within the plate, 17.25 x 20.5 ins. (sheet) (unframed);
“Guelph in Summer” (signed and titled within the plate, 17.25 x 20.5 ins. (sheet) (unframed);
“Woodcarvers’ Corner” (signed and titled within the plate, 17.5 x 20.5 ins. (sheet) (unframed);
“Windmills on the Richelieu” (signed and titled within the plate, 17.25 x 20 ins. (sheet)(unframed)
17.5 x 20.5 ins ( 44.5 x 52.1 cms ) ( largest sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00
Price Realized $150.00
Sale date: December 19th 2020
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Mountain Landscape
etching
signed and dated 1952 in the lower margin
6 x 8 ins ( 15.2 x 20.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $150.00
Sale date: February 19th 2015
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Old St. Mark’s, Niagara-on-the-Lake
colour aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
5.25 x 4 ins ( 13.3 x 10.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $150.00
Sale date: December 9th 2015
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Three Christmas Cards
colour etchings
“Old St. Mark’s, Niagara on the Lake”, “Sparkling Sunday”, “Martyr’s Shrine, Midland”- each signed and titled in the lower margin; inside message for each reads “Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”
7.5 x 6.5 ins ( 19.1 x 16.5 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: October 27th 2020
N. Hornyansky Biography
(1896 - 1965) OSA, RCA
Nicholas Hornyansky was born in Budapest in 1896. He worked as a colour mixer in his father’s printing office while still a boy. Hornyansky studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest under Prof. Ballo and Prof. Pasteiner and began exhibiting in Antwerp and Brussels. After he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, he did post graduate studies in Vienna, Munich, Antwerp and Paris. He then went to Belgium about 1919 (as an accomplished portrait painter) and was associated with the School of Hens where he worked with Franz Hens doing landscape painting. After spending nine years in Belgium he travelled to England where he painted the portraits of Lord Newton at London and of the Baroness Miriam Rothschild at Trink Castle. He then went to Paris where he studied simultaneous colour aquatint printmaking and etching.
He came to Canada in 1929 and settled in Toronto, where he first exhibited his figure paintings, and his “Ice-Man” received the attention of critics and artists alike. He exhibited regularly with and became a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and an Associate Member of the Royal Canadian Academy. He also belonged to the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers. Hornyansky made major contributions to the advancement of printmaking in Canada and taught metal plate media at the Ontario College of Arts from 1945 to 1958. He exhibited widely in the United States and internationally and received numerous awards for his work.
Hornyansky’s works are held in collections including the Royal Ontario Museum, Tom Thomson Memorial (Owen Sound), Sarnia Art Gallery, the Archives and Collections Society, the National Gallery of Canada, the University of Guelph Gallery, the Musée Plantyn in Antwerp, the National Print Collection at the Library of Congress, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania Museum of Art in Philadelphia.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979
