Molnár’s Paris: Vera Molnár Moves to Paris

Veronika “Vera” Gács arrived in Paris on December 10, 1947, with her soon-to-be husband, François Molnár. “I was obsessed with the desire to see modern art, and for me that could only mean Paris,” she later recalled.1 The twenty-three-year-old Vera stayed with François at a hotel on Rue de l’Hirondelle, her first place of residence in the city. There she would produce her first creative expression in Paris, drawing the house across the street from her hotel window. The Hungarian expat would call the city home for the next seventy-six years.