Remous, 1947

Painting in oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76 x 53.5 cm

Before Victor Vasarely became a founder of Op Art in the 1960s - with strongly geometric works - he devoted himself to abstract painting. He painted his subjects metaphorically, using high-contrast colours and the stylistic device of distortion to breathe life into the pictures. His paintings, which were radically modern at the time, only reveal themselves in all their diversity of appearance when the viewer moves around the room.

Victor Vasarely was born in 1906 in Pécs, Hungary, and moved to Paris in 1930, where he died in 1997. As a painter and graphic artist, he was a pioneer of kinetic art and he is one of the key figures of Op Art. Vasarely won numerous art prizes and was a multiple participant in the documenta in Kassel. His works can be seen in the Vasarely Museums in his birthplace in Pécs and in Zichy Castle in Budapest, in the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence and in many museums of modern art.