Live Auction 3057Post-War and Contemporary Art
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Lot 151 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS FOUNDATION

Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Hommage à Malevitsch

Closed4 November 2015

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EUR 9,375

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Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Hommage à Malevitsch
signed, titled and dated 'Vasarely "HOMMAGE à MALEVITSCH" 1953' (on the reverse)
composite marble
35 x 33.5 x 3.5 cm.
Executed in 1953

Galerie Von Bartha, Basel.
Private Collection, Switzerland.

Specialist note

The present lot is a prototype that was realized to test the choice of materials for the architectural project  L’Hommage à Malevitch, a group of ceramic works installed in an open-air passage in the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, Venezuela, in 1954, executed by Vasarely in collaboration with the architect Carlos Villanueva.