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Vilmos Huszár (1884-1960)
Lot 415 Property from the Stanford Z. Rothschild, Jr. Collection

Vilmos Huszár (1884-1960)

Composition abstraite

Closed14 November 2017

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Vilmos Huszár (1884-1960)
Composition abstraite
signed with initials 'VH' (lower right)
oil on panel in the artist's painted frame
16 5/8 x 15 ¼ in. (42.3 x 38.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1918-1928

Died Vissir, Hungary (possibly acquired from the artist).
B.J. Teyinck, Schoonhoven, Netherlands (acquired from the above, 1931).
Private collection, France; sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1982, lot 45.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Specialist note

The editorial introducing the first issue of the journal De Stijl, published in October 1917, clearly details its purpose: "to convince the general public to abandon old, individualist aesthetic principles in favor of 'universal' ones grounded on the authentic spirit of modern times" (Y.-A. Bois, "3 De Stijl Models," Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015, p. 238). Huszar designed the cover image (fig. 1), of which the present work is a variation.