Victor Vasarely

Otto Hahn, Paris
Vente: Loudmer, Paris, Collection Otto Hahn, 1er juillet 1996, lot 89
Galeria Maria Blanchard, Madrid
Collection particulière, Madrid

Marcel Joray, Vasarely, Vol. III, Neuchâtel, 1974, p.104, illustré en couleurs

The work is on its original canvas. There are a few paintlosses visible in the catalogue's illustration towards the lower left corner. Under UV light, there are some scattered spots of retouching throughout. The colours in the catalogue's illustration are much lighter and brighter in the reality.
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signed, dated and titled on the back: acrylic on canvas. Executed in 1935-1976.

Otto Hahn avec Vasarely © D.R.

Le système de l'unité plastique  de Vasarely donne à voir le meilleur cheminement d'une façon de construire qui s'appuie à la fois sur Seurat et Malevitch, et dans laquelle l'histoire intellectuelle et l'histoire des formes sont liées (...) Deux éléments entrent dans son système : l'Impressionnisme et le Cubisme, constitutifs de son monde, que l'on pourrait définir en ces termes : Iconographie de l'agressivité optique. Ce monde se situe entre l'art de la perception, (...) et l'art de l'aperception, qui, au-delà de la simple perception, tente de provoquer un acte intellectuel.
(Werner Spies, Vasarely, Paris, 1969.)