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Victor Vasarely, Color Silkscreen, Composition, 1960/70s

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:500.00 EUR Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR
Victor Vasarely, Color Silkscreen, Composition, 1960/70s
Silkscreen in colors on wove paper
France, 1960/70s
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) – Hungarian-French artist
Signed in pencil lower right ‘Vasarely’
Numbered in pencil lower left ‘79/250’
Image dimensions: 59 x 52 cm
Very good condition

Victor Vasarely’s geometric works are well-known as icons of the Op Art movement; his color silkscreens fetch up to 5,000 euro on the international art market



References in literature often describe Victor Vasarely as the ‘father’ of the Op Art movement. In the late 1940s Vasarely started to engage in the concept of geometric patterns and their influence on the senses. The present work is a beautiful example of his artistic approach of exploring and creating his own abstract geometric language that carries a certain kinetic energy.

The silkscreen in colors is signed with pencil lower right ‘Vasarely’ and numbered in pencil lower left ‘79/250’. The sheet is professionally mounted under passe-partout en verso at the upper edge. The image size is 59 x 52 cm and the dimensions of the sheet are 70 x 62 cm. The framed work measures 83.5 x 72 cm.



Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Victor Vasarely was born in Pécs in Hungary in 1906. He started studying at the Podolini-Volkmann Academy in Budapest in 1927. In 1930 he moved to Paris where he successfully worked as a graphic designer and started exploring the effect of geometric patterns on the senses. Through that interest he created his own geometric abstractions. The variations of these are image patterns with kinetic effects on the viewer. With this concept Vasarely created the basis and a fundament for the origins of Op Art. Between 1955 and 1968 he regularly took part in the Documenta. In 1976 he opened his Vasary foundation in Aixe-en-Provence and helped to build an institute for architecture. In the same year the city Pécs, where he was born, honoured him with a Vasarely museum. A second museum opened in 1987 at the castle Zichy in Budapest. (cbo)
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