A number of museums in Hungary are to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of István Szőnyi, one of the most talented figures of 20th century Hungarian painting art. The Radnai Collection owned by the Municipal Museum of Arts contains a unique selection of Szőnyi's paintings. We chose a number of these to be shown at the exhibition in Pásztó.

Béla Radnai systematically purchased one painting from every period of Szőnyi's art. Therefore, the collection clasps his oeuvre from the 1910s through the works he made in Zebegény in the 1930s up to the 1940s.

The material of the exhibition in Győr was selected to represent the technical variation with which Szőnyi worked, namely aquarelles, ink, pencil, coal and crayon drawings. The topics Szőnyi painted can be grouped into motion studies, classicizing nudes, fine gender scenes portraying family life, landscapes enriched with ink and animal portraits coloured in aquarelle.