A Munkácsy miracle in Békés county

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While giving an interview last summer for a local newspaper, Imre Szatmári, director of the Munkácsy Mihály Museum in Békéscsaba, received an email. It said that a Swiss gentleman would be pleased to sell to the museum a Munkácsy painting of a young girl, unknown to the general public, for a hundred thousand euros. The journalist returned to his office where he told Ottó Varga, editor-in-chief of Békés County News, what he had heard. Then the idea arose – the museum and the local paper together would launch a campaign for donations in order to purchase the painting.