Code - Transition Noir et Blanc. by Victor Vasarely, 1908-1997

Victor Vasarely, 1908-1997
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Code - Transition Noir et Blanc.

Original screenprint in colours with inkless relief. 1967. Signed in pencil. Numbered (133) from the edition of 150 (plus XV proof impressions). Printed at the studio of Atelier 87 and Jean Duval. Issued in the series 'Code de Jean-Clarence Lambert'. Published by Le Soleil Noir, Paris 1967.

Excellent impression in extremely fine condition. On pale cream wove BFK Rives paper. Full margins. The image uses the full sheet of paper. Sheet: 15 x 10 3/4ins. 380x273mm.

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This composition was drawn by Vasarely at a period in the middle of the 1960’s when he was putting the combination of intricate patterns of black geometric forms and shapes embossed into the sheet with inkless relief to particularly creative effect. The interplay between the contrasted black forms, the optical effect of the white ‘blanks’ between the shapes, and the variations of surface created by the embossing, makes the prints which Vasarely made in this style some of the most visually arresting in his oeuvre.

Vasarely was the key artist in the development of the concept of optical visual abstraction in the years after the Second War. Nurtured on Contructivism, and on the theories and works of Mondrian and De Stijl, he conceived the idea of an abstract imagery which used optical deception, the way that the eye could be visually tricked into seeing movement or changes of space and level through contrasted pattern of shape and colour, to make a form of visual ‘sculpture’ of plane and surface.