Photorealistic painting “Hello Kitty” (2025) by Duhaj Peter, oil on canvas

Peter Duhaj, along with Istvan Cenegal, Laszlo Gulyas, and Jozsef Furst, is one of the leading representatives of contemporary Hungarian realist painting. The quality of his works is overwhelming and can be summed up in one word: perfect photorealism. The female and male nudes on his canvases are painted with brilliant skill. Their perfectly rendered bodies radiate an almost mystical erotic charge. As a viewer, one is almost tempted to touch the naked bodies on the canvases, to merge with them on the canvas, or to take them home...