Collage with gouache and pencil on thin board, 1955. 370x370 mm; 14⅝x14⅝ inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower center.
Provenance Artcurial, Paris, April 28, 2004, lot 91. Purchased from the above by current owner, Paris.
Exhibited "Le Mouvement," Galerie Denise René, Paris, April 6-30, 1955. "Sam Francis - Victor Vasarely, Order & Disorder," Ma Galerie, Paris, February 11-April 9, 2016.
Victor Vasarely, born in Hungary, spent much of his artistic career in France after completing his studies in 1930 with the artist Sánor Bortnyik at the Mühely Academy in Budapest. Today, he is widely regarded at a pioneering kinetic and Op-art artist and was the recipient of several international awards and honors, including the Guggenheim Prize in 1964, and the Grand Prix at the São Paulo Biennial in 1965. During the 1950s, Vasarely devoted much of his artistic output to kinetic art, and in 1955, the year which the present work was created, wrote his Manifeste jaune (Yellow Manifesto) for "Le mouvement" a landmark group exhibition of kinetic art at Galerie Denise René, Paris.
