Victor Vasarely (Hungarian, 1906 - 1997)

Victor Vasarely

Hungarian | 1906 - 1997

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1906. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier have featured Victor Vasarely's work in the past.Victor Vasarely's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3 USD to 881,858 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 881,858 USD for ALTAÏ III, sold at Sotheby's London in 2010. Victor Vasarely has been featured in articles for Art Journal Open, Artmajeur Magazine and The Star Tribune. The most recent article is An Unusual Comparison: Amish Quilts and Modern Art written for Daily Art Magazine in March 2024. The artist died in 1997.

Artist's alternative names: Győző‏ Vasarely, Győző Vásárhelyi, Vasarely

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Articles

An Unusual Comparison: Amish Quilts and Modern Art
Black Op Art

Black Op Art  

Art Journal Open 21/03/2024
The Most Popular Hungarian Artists

The Most Popular Hungarian Artists  

Artmajeur Magazine 20/02/2024

Coverage

..Already during his time as a student at the art school Műhely, the so-called "Budapest Bauhaus", Vasarely (b...

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Haus Konstruktiv

..However, at the end of the 1940s, Vasarely began to move in a different direction...

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Haus Konstruktiv

..Vasarely’s inventions in the use of colors and optical illusion have become extremely popular in the 1960—1970 and had a huge influence on contemporary artists, designers and graphic artists...

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Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

..Closing the distance between a modern consumer society and ‘high’ art, Vasarely placed emphasis on active participation from an observer, suggesting the potential for different images to be seen from all...

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Omer Tiroche, London

..Vasarely’s philosophy continued the work of the Cubists before him, seeking to reinvent our relationship with space and movement...

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Omer Tiroche, London

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