Nicholas Hornyansky
(1896 - 1965) OSA, RCA
Previously Sold Works
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
The Navy Hall and Fort George
colour aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
4.25 x 5.75 ins ( 10.8 x 14.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $120.00
Sale date: December 9th 2015
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Oakes Gardens, Niagara Falls, Canada
colour aquatint
signed and dated in the lower margin
4.5 x 6 ins ( 11.4 x 15.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $120.00
Sale date: December 9th 2015
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
The Old Pilot
aquatint
signed and titled in pencil in the lower margin
9.25 x 8 ins ( 23.5 x 20.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: September 12th 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Flowerpot Rock
etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin; this work is the outside cover of a Holiday card from the artist, the inside signed, and inscribed “The Season’s most cordial Greetings and a Happy 1949”; unframed
3.75 x 5.25 ins ( 9.5 x 13.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $90.00
Sale date: February 19th 2015
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
The City Buildings, Kingston
etching
signed and titled in pencil in the lower margin
7.5 x 6 ins ( 19.1 x 15.2 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: December 12th 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
colour etching
signed and dated in the lower margin
7 x 8.25 ins ( 17.8 x 21 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: July 16th 2019
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Porte St. Florian - Cracovie, Pologne
colour etching
signed, titled and numbered 26/250 in the lower margin
27.25 x 21.75 ins ( 69.2 x 55.2 cms ) ( sheet )
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
The Old Smithy; Waiting Teams
pair of colour aquatints
“The Old Smithy” (colour aquatint, signed and titled in the lower margin, subject 3.5 ins x 4 ins); “Waiting Teams” (colour aquatint, signed and titled in the lower margin, subject 3.5 ins x 4 ins)
3.5 x 4 ins ( 8.9 x 10.2 cms ) ( each subject )
Auction Estimate: $225.00 - $275.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: June 13th 2018
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Fort Niagara; Fort Mississauga
pair of colour aquatints
“Fort Niagara” (colour aquatint, signed and titled in the lower margin, subject 4.25 ins x 5.5 ins); “Fort Mississauga” (colour aquatint, signed and titled in the lower margin, subject 4.25 ins x 5.75 ins)
4.25 x 5.5 ins ( 10.8 x 14 cms ) ( each )
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Château de Ramsay, Montreal; The East Block, Parliament (Ottawa)
pair of colour etchings
“Château de Ramsay, Montreal”- 4 ins x 5.75 ins; “The East Block, Parliament (Ottawa)” - 7 ins x 5.5 ins; each signed and titled in the lower margin
7 x 5.5 ins ( 17.8 x 14 cms ) ( largest )
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square, Toronto
colour aquatint on christmas card
signed and titled in the lower margin
6.5 x 8 ins ( 16.5 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $225.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Old St. Stephen’s on Bellevue (Toronto)
colour etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
8.25 x 6.25 ins ( 21 x 15.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $225.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Snow in Venice
colour etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
4.75 x 6.5 ins ( 12.1 x 16.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $225.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
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
