Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Diuru (P.912)

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Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Diuru (P.912)
signed 'vasarely-' (lower edge); signed again twice, titled, dated and numbered 'P.912 VASARELY- "DIURU" 1973-76 Vasarely-' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
78 1/2 x 79 in. (199.4 x 200.6 cm.)
Painted in 1976.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, circa 1980

Lot Essay

"Is it a cold and cerebral art? No—a purified art, rather, marked with a deep spirituality, ordered and built as is the crystal or the atom. A great richness of invention appears in Vasarely’ s structures, in which the special arrangement of the elements produces that characteristic, irritating, and finally appealing vibration. For here everything contributes to the kinetic form (la plastique cinétique), a term of which he is in fact the inventor. He does not consider forms and colors separately, but as a form-color whole, which has become a plastic Unity…” – Marcel Joray, ed., Vasarely, Switzerland, 1965, p. 6.


The authenticity of the present work has been confirmed by Pierre Vasarely. The work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint de Victor Vasarely, which is currently being compiled by the Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence.

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