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        2. István Sándorfi, also known as Étienne Sandorfi, was a French/Hungarian naturalist painter.
        3. Sandorfi was born in in Budapest, Hungary.
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          István Sándorfi

          The native form of this personal name is Sándorfi István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

          István Sándorfi (In FranceÉtienne Sandorfi, 12 June 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, – 26 December 2007 in Paris, France) was a Hungarian hyperrealist painter.[1]

          Early life and career

          Istvan (known as Etienne) Sandorfi was born in Budapest in 1948 and died in 2007.

          His father was director of the American company, IBM, in Hungary. Because of this association he served five years in Stalinist prisons during the Communist regime and his family was deported to an isolated Hungarian village.

          At the time of the 1956 uprising the Sandorfi family fled the country and became expatriates, first in Germany, then in France. Greatly affected by the violence of the revolution and by the aberration of political systems in general, Istvan took refuge in drawing, and then, at the age of 12, in oil painting.[2]

          Art became his ove