Artist
Csók István
Creation year
1900
Technique
oil
canvas
Size
120 × 210 cm
Sign
signed bottom left
Csók
Genre
painting
ID
000110
Exhibitions
Published

Révész, Emese: "A tavasz ébredése avagy Vénusz diadala. Csók István újonnan előkerült remekművének előzményeiről". Artmagazin, year II. no. 2, May 2004. pp. 22-23.

Auction Catalogue. Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest, 28th October, 2004. pp. 127. ill. 99. kép. Starting price: 10.000.000 HUF.
Artmagazin, year II. no. 2, May 2004. pp. 23.
Veszprémi ünnepi játékok műsorfüzet. 2–6th August, 2006.
Kieselbach. Csontváry. Szerelem. 2006. pp. 25.
Révész, Emese: Csók. Corvina. 2006.  ill. 11.
Múzeum – Körút. Válogatás 150 év magyar festészetéből. MNM-Kogart. 2006. ill. 49.
Távoli fények, közelítő színek. A régi japán művészet és a modern látásmód. Szombathelyi Képtár. 2007. pp. 100.
A magyar festészet remekei. Csók István. Kossuth Kiadó/Magyar Nemzeti Galéria. 2010. ill. 13. pp. 20.
Artkalauz. March-July 2012, II/1. pp. 8.

Notes
At around 1897, István Csók was experimenting with a modern paraphrase of Sacred and Profane Love by the late-Renaissance master, Titian. In the end, he found Melancholy, which depicted the choice between inspiration and worldly pleasures, spirituality and sensuality, immortality and fleeting pleasures, a failure, and destroyed most of it, keeping only one of the two female figures, Venus (Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár). Spring Awakening can be considered a follow-up to the subject; the duo of an artist sunk in his thoughts and a female figure who represents nature in its full glory can be considered an allegory of spring, just as well as of art and inspiration. After it was presented in Műcsarnok in 1914, the painting was missing for ninety years, before re-emerging again in 2004, as part of the Gábor Kovács Collection.