Victor Vasarely

VICTOR VASARELY (Pécs, Hungary, 1908 - Paris, 1997).
Untitled.
Collage on cardboard.
Signed at the bottom, towards the center.
Attached certificate of authenticity issued by Pierre Vasarely, grandson of the artist.
Provenance: Private collection.
Measurements: 60 × 34 cm; 75,5 x 50 cm (frame).

This collage is fully inscribed in the visual research that Victor Vasarely developed from the fifties and that consecrated him as the founder and main theorist of Op Art. The work is built from a rigorous geometric grid that generate the illusion of a three-dimensional volume in expansion.

In this period, the artist conceived the work as a "visual program", where each element can be reproduced, transformed and combined without losing coherence. Collage, a technique he frequently employed, allowed him to experiment with mathematical precision while at the same time maintaining a manual execution that brings subtlety and rhythm to the composition.

Within his production as a whole, this work dialogues with his most emblematic series, and is a representative example of Vasarely's artistic maturity and of his decisive contribution to the abstract and optical art of the 20th century.

Among the numerous awards Vasarely received during his lifetime, the Guggenheim Prize (1964), the Art Critics of Brussels and the gold medal at the Milan Triennale are particularly noteworthy. In 1970 he was also named Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor. He is represented in the museums dedicated to him in Aix-en-Provence, Pécs and Budapest, but also in the most important centers of contemporary art in the world, such as the Tate Gallery in London, the MoMA in New York, the Guggenheim in Venice or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.