Lot 123
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Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
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Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Supernovae - Neg

Details
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Supernovae - Neg
signed 'vasarely-' (lower center); signed twice, titled and inscribed 'vasarely - SUPERNOVAE - NEG 1960' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
60 x 37 3/8in. (152.5 x 96cm.)
Painted in 1973
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner and thence by descent to the present owner.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further Details
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mr. Pierre Vasarely. This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Fondation Vasarely d’Aix-en-Provence.

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Lot Essay

‘The reflection that starts from the works of the Kinetic period leads the artist to increasingly rarefy the shades of color and choose the severe dualism of black and white. Hence the birth of extremely essential and simple paintings, all created with minimum differentiations of position of the elements or of their perceptive mass. […] The great illumination is that of the dualism of black and white, no longer seen as opposing elements (Yin and Yang, good and evil, true and false, etc.), but as the elements that make up the binary system of plus and minus or, if we like, of one and zero, applied to computer technology’
(A. Busto et al., Victor Vasarely, Milan 2007, p. 85)

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