The exhibition entitled "Gulácsy Pictures from the Smetana Collection" at the Oratory of the Kiscell Museum presents eight Gulácsy paintings. The Smetana private collection was made up of fifteen pictures. However, they were last shown together at the Saint Stephen Museum in 1966. After the owner of the collection died, the paintings were scattered all over the world. Thus it was not easy to collect these eight paintings for this exhibition. The rest of the pictures are either abroad or in Hungary, but the owners of some are not known.

A book on Gulácsy by Judit Szabadi was published in 2007. She is also the author of the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition. Judit Szabadi is the art historian who saw all the fifteen paintings at the Smetana family's house. She described this expreience in the catalogue.

"Artúr Keleti led me into a house in Pesterzsébet at 69 Queen Elizabeth Street where Ernő Smetana lived with his wife among a number of paintings. When I rang the bell, I had no idea where I was going. All I knew was that there were original Gulácsy pictures in the house. As I entered, I had to stop in the hall where the "Dream about the War or The Cliff of Death" hung on the wall over me. This dramatic vision inspired by WWII and the pathological events after it came from the subconscious of the man who lost his mind."

Interest in the art of Lajos Gulácsy heightened in the near past. In consequence of this, a new monograph was published about him in 2008 and one for the Kogart's Gulácsy exhibition. Five of the paintings shown at the Budapest Art Gallery were acquired recently. This provided the apropos for organizing the exhibition.