Though I studied art history in university, I was totally unaware just how prolific de László was. Wow.
From an interview with archivist Sandra de Laszlo (married to one of his grandsons), co-curator of an exhibition of his work at Christie’s (2004):
“…90 per cent of the portraits are still in private collections, and certainly all his masterpieces are.”
“In my estimation he probably produced about ten thousand paintings and drawings altogether, though so far I’ve only recorded some three thousand of them and I don’t yet know the exact size of the iceberg! He himself said that he painted 2700 portraits, but from studying his Å“uvre, I now know that he painted or drew each sitter certainly twice, sometimes three times or even more.”