exhibitions
Dublin Painters Gallery 1953
Rakoczi and Hall in Dublin -
early 1940's
Basil Rakoczi exhibitions
Basil Rákóczi has featured in over 150 exhibitions, of which more than 60 have been solo shows. His first commercial show was in 1935, a small exhibition at the Artificer’s Guild in Cambridge, of which he wrote about his “excitement and nervousness.”
He has also had one man shows in London, Manchester, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, Brussels, New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, and many other places.
He exhibited regularly at the Irish Museum of Living Art from 1944 to 1960, at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin from 1942 to 1952 and at the Watercolour Society of Ireland from 1941 to 1950, and more recently his work was included in a show in 2004.
He has art works in public collections across the globe including:
Brighton, University of Sussex
Derby, City Art Gallery
Manchester, City Art Gallery
Dublin, Trinity College
Belfast, Ulster Museum
Queensland, Australia, National Collection
Auckland, City Art Gallery
A limited edition copy of his book ‘The Caged and the Free’ is with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
More recently Rákóczi featured in a major exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2005 entitled The White Stag Group. He would have been just as nervous and excited as he was at that first show if he had been alive to see it!
© 2008 Basil Rakoczi
