71 Victor VASARELY (1908-1997)
Dorog, 1963/1990
Painting... Lot 71
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71 Victor VASARELY (1908-1997)
Dorog, 1963/1990
Painting on canvas
Signed lower right
On the back countersigned, titled, dated, bears an inventory number 1075
61 x 50 cm
A certificate of authenticity by Pierre Vasarely will be given to the buyer.
The sixties saw the appearance on our walls of a visual art form that was different from figuration, abstraction and all other pictorial representations.
pictorial representations. Optical art soon influenced architecture, furniture design and everyday objects.
In 1965, Victor Vasarely became known as the inventor of Op Art, thanks to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
in New York.
"According to wave mechanics, matter is sometimes a wave, sometimes a corpuscle. For a long time now, I've been observing a wave-like tendency in my own work.
my own work a wave-like tendency and another corpuscular one, hence the image borrowed from Physics. Everything that was once
figure or form, has crystallized in my "structures", composed of plastic units: waves and corpuscles. This meeting
between two seemingly opposed disciplines, the rational in physics and the empirical in aesthetics, has long troubled me.
disturbed me for a long time, as I never consciously drew inspiration from the exact sciences." Victor Vasarely
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