Helios VI deluxe by Victor Vasarely

"Helios VI deluxe" by Victor Vasarely - Framed, signed serigraph Title: "Helios VI deluxe" Artist: Victor Vasarely Number: 181/200 Medium: Serigraph Image Size: 11½" wide x 14" tall Frame size; 16" wide x 19" tall Signed and numbered by the artist Glazed with brushed aluminum frame Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Originally purchased from: Laura Pollak Galleries, San Diego, CA on November 21, 1984 About the artist: Victor Vasarely's innovations in color and optical illusion have had a profound influence on contemporary art. He is internationally recognized as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Victor Vasarely was born in Pécs and grew up in Pöstyén (now Piešťany, Slovakia) and Budapest, where in 1925 he took up medical studies at Eötvös Loránd University. In 1927, he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's private art school called Műhely (lit. "Workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as Budapest's centre of Bauhaus studies. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer all that the Bauhaus offered. Instead it concentrated on applied graphic art and typographical design. In 1929 he painted his Blue Study and Green Study. In 1930, he married his fellow student Claire Spinner (1908--1990). Together they had two sons, Andre and Jean-Pierre. In Budapest, he worked for a ball-bearings company in accounting and designing advertising posters. Vasarely became a graphic designer and a poster artist during the 1930s combining patterns and organic images with each other. Vasarely left Hungary and settled in Paris in 1930. He worked as a graphic artist and as a creative consultant at the advertising agencies Havas, Draeger and Devambez (1930--1935). His interactions with other artists during this time were limited. He thought of opening an institution modeled after Sándor Bortnyik's műhely and developed some teaching material for it. Having lived mostly in cheap hotels, he settled in 1942/1944 in Saint-Céré in the Lot département. After the Second World War, he opened an atelier in Arcueil, a suburb about 10 kilometers from the centre of Paris (in the Val-de-Marne département of the Île-de-France). In 1961, he finally settled in Annet-sur-Marne (in the Seine-et-Marnedépartement). Vasarely eventually went on to produce art and sculpture using optical illusion. Over the next three decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art, working in various materials but using a minimal number of forms and colours. Born: 04/09/1906 Died: 03/15/1997 Please contact me with any questions. Sold with no returns. CASH ONLY! Local viewing is available. Local pick-up only. This item is located in Roseville, CA 95747. All reasonable offers considered. However, if you wish this item shipped, shipping charges are an additional $49.95.