Bartók at the age of five (Bratislava/Pozsony, 1886)

Bartók’s secondary-school graduation picture (Bratislava/Pozsony, 1899)

The Bartók family: Béla, Elza (his younger sister), Irma Voit (Bartók’ s aunt) and Bartók’s mother (Bratislava/Pozsony, 1901)

Portrait with a moustache in a pass (for half-price fare) from 1907

On a folksong collecting trip in the village of Darázs in Nyitra County (now Drazovce, Slovakia) in 1907.

Bartók playing the hurdy-gurdy in his new home on Teréz Boulevard in Budapest, June 1908

Bartók, Kodály and the Waldbauer-Kerpely String Quartet, March 1910

Bartók, a playmate of Bartók’s son, Mrs. Kodály, Béla Bartók Jr. and Bartók’s wife, Márta Ziegler, 1916

With his son, Béla in the garden of his Rákoskeresztúr home, 1913

With his mother, Budapest, September 1925

Bartók in the studio of sculptor Géza Csorba, Budapest, 1930.

With the members of the nomadic Kumarli tribe in Anatolia, Turkey, November 1936

Sailing towards the US, April 1940

At the piano in the study of his Csalán street home, 1936 (photo: Kata Kálmán, detail)