VICTOR VASARELY 1908-1997
Pecs, Hungary 1908-1997 Paris (Hungarian)
Title: AZ Album 1988-BAN, 1988
Technique: Portfolio including 8 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Silkscreens on thick paper
Paper Size: 70 x 50 cm / 27.6 x 19.7 in
Portfolio Size: 71 x 51.5 cm / 28 x 20.3 in
Additional Information: This original portfolio consists of 8 silkscreens, each hand signed in pencil by the artist "Vasarely" in the lower right margin,
and hand numbered in pencil "8/100" in the lower left margin.
The portfolio was printed in a limited edition of 100 impressions as a celebration of Vasarely's 80th anniversary.
The justification pages give detailed information about the portfolio edition, and the title page is also numbered 8/100.
Considered one of the progenitors of Op Art for his optically complex and illusionistic paintings, Victor Vasarely spent the course of a long, critically acclaimed career seeking, and arguing for, an approach to art making that was deeply social. He placed primary importance on the development of an engaging, accessible visual language that could be universally understood—this language, for Vasarely, was geometric abstraction, more commonly known as Op Art. Through precise combinations of lines, geometric shapes, colors, and shading, he created eye-popping paintings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. More than pleasing tricks for the eye, Vasarely insisted, “pure form and pure color can signify the world.
Condition: Very good condition. Some light creases in the corners. The portfolio itself has some scratches, marks and tape remains, but is in general in a good condition.