Árpád Sándor was a Hungarian pianist who occasionally worked as a draughtsman. Sándor attended the Budapest Conservatory and first played in the United States as a young musician. From 1922, he lived in Berlin, and immigrated to the USA in 1933 where he worked as a chamber musician and pianist. In 1943, he received American citizenship. Having never really recovered from an accident, he spent the last years of his life in his home town of Budapest. Apart from the self-portrait, which is in the collection of the Uffizi, only one other portrait by him is known: a charcoal drawing of his mother, which is now in the British Museum.