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c1960 Pal Kepenyes Bronze Lion Necklace. The necklace is 22" long, pendant is 3.5" wide and signed. No issues or damage.
Between 1945 and 1949 Pal spent two years at the Budapest School of Applied Arts as a decorative sculptor, and then for another two years at the College of Fine Arts at Bénin Ferenczi . He was then fired as a class stranger. In 1950, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for concealing weapons on fabricated charges. He began to serve his sentence in Szeged , after two and a half years of forced labor he was sent to Tatabánya , and then to the mine in Várpalota , from where he was taken to Márianosztra . After his release, he took part in the battles on Kálvin Square and Rákóczi Road in Budapest in 1956.. On November 21, 1956, he and his brother and a girl crossed the Austrian border in a snowfall. An Austrian doctor first took him to a camp, from where he hitchhiked to Vienna , spending ten days in a hotel for free. From there, together with three hundred of his companions, he was taken to Paris by a special train . From 1956 to 1958 he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He made a resurrection statue in Belgium , from the sale of which he covered his boat ticket from Bilbao to Mexico City . He has also exhibited in London , the Folksmuseum in Berlin and the World's Fair in New York . First metal, then silver and bronze necklaces, bracelets, rings in Los Angeles, Also sold in New Mexico and Arizona . In the early 1960s, he moved to Mexico City , Mexico , and from there to Acapulco . He makes his sculptures from precious metals in an expressionist and surrealist style. There is also a statue in one of the squares in Monterey, Mexico . He was awarded the Kossuth Prize on March 15, 2020 . Jacqueline Kennedy , Elizabeth Taylor , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Bill Gates , Richard Nixon and Madonna have also bought jewelry .
