Molnár’s Paris: Vera and Francois Molnár Marry and Find Studio Space

Married and now named Vera Molnár, the young couple left their Parisian hotel to live with her affluent Franco-Hungarian family in the suburbs of Ermont-Eaubonne. The newlywed couple spent a year living in a small caretaker’s lodge on the property. The Molnárs had access to a studio on the estate, which delighted the young artists and made their visiting artist friends extremely jealous. This idyllic situation, however, would not last long, as a minor family scandal forced them to relocate. It was around this time in the late ’40s that Vera began experimenting with abstraction, after encountering the work of Albrecht Dürer.