Ferenc Hatvany
Baron Ferenc Hatvany was a Hungarian painter and art collector. A son of Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch and a member of the, he graduated in the Académie Julian in Paris. His collection included paintings by Tintoretto, Cézanne, Renoir, Ingres and Courbet, most notably L'Origine du monde and Femme nue couchée.
Towards the end of the Second World War his paintings were looted by Soviet troops but some were ransomed by Hatvany. In 1947 he emigrated to Paris. In 1955 L'Origine du monde was sold at auction for 1.5 million francs.
Paintings that were looted from Hatvany's collection are still hanging on museum walls in Budapest, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod. John Constable's Beaching A Boat, Brighton was identified in the collection of The Tate in 2014.
Hatvany died in Lausanne in 1958.
