Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Torony

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Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Torony
signed twice 'vasarely-' (lower edge and centre right edge); signed, titled and dated 'VASARELY "TORONY" 1970' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
70 7/8 x 35 3/8in. (180 x 90cm.)
Painted in 1970

Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 10 May 2012, lot 293.
Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich.
Private Collection, Switzerland.

Vienna, Kuntsforum Wien der Bank Austria, Victor Vasarely - Retrospektive, 1992, no. 59 (illustrated in colour, p. 137).
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Victor Vasarely, 1993-1994, no. 54 (illustrated in colour, p. 84). This exhibition later travelled to Iwaki, Iwaki City Art Museum; Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Obihiro, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art; Itami, Itami City Museum of Art and Kure, Kure Municipal Museum of Art.
Lausanne, Musée Olympique de Lausanne, Victor Vasarely 50 Years of Creation, 1995-1996 (illustrated in colour, p. 75).
Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Vasarely: Erfinder der Op-Art, 1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 164). This exhibition later travelled to Wolfsburg, Kuntsverein and Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum.

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‘Curiously, the hexagon didn’t take long to become a cube, but a perspective, unstable cube […]. In actual fact, it can be split into three identical rhomboids. It is sufficient to color these identical rhomboids and the cube is born, multiplies and creates a new cellular plot. This research converges into the Tri-Dim compositions with the addition of an old acquaintance to Kepler’s cube: the axonometric cube.’ VICTOR VASARELY

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