ONE-OF-A-KIND VASARELY COLLECTION FE/FPs & Signed *RARE 100% TO CHARITY - - - PowerSeller - - - FREE SHIPPING!! Start Price USD 100,000.00 Current Price USD 100,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 225,000.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 14, 2008 Location 100% to CHARITY!!! See more about 'ONE-OF-A-KIND VASARELY COLLECTION FE/FPs & Signed *RARE' Description     In 1997, I inherited from my mother, Nonnie Post, her vast collection of Vasarely books, serigraphs, lithographs, exposition posters, correspondence, and a hand-made personally-dedicated collage, along with the gorgeous, limited-edition oversized folio of Vasarely's work printed in the early 1980s by Studio Bruckmann. Appraised years-ago by the now-defunct Denise Rene Gallery (New York and Paris), valued more recently by Lilla Szabo, Director of the Vasarely Museum in Budapest, Hungary, and by now-infamous Michele Vasarely of the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, France (and who interestingly tried to get me to donate my collection to her!!), as well as by Jennifer Kass and Jonathan Greenberg at Sotheby's, this worth of this rich and vital collection extends far beyond any monetary amount assigned to it since it reflects an individual and self-aware journey taken by M. Vasarely, from 1970 to his death in 1997, as illuminated by a beautiful, one-in-the-world correspondence with a little French-speaking American girl who wrote him - after a visit to the spectacular, then-Vasarely Museum in Gordes, France - to say that she did not like his work but that her mother did! That girl was me, as evidenced by the letters from me to the artist memorialized at the back of his oversized limited-edition folio, used as example of 'audience response to Op Art.' I possess, and shall keep, the original letters penned by me to Vasarely, and which he kindly had returned to me after our generous face-to-face meeting at his home in Annet-Sur-Marne, Arcueil, outside of Paris, where I was living at the time; I also cherish the originals of the letters from vasarely to me. Extras include the baseball card style photo of Vasarely from the singular Art Ball Issue, plus reviews for the book ON PERMANENT VIEW, a book co-authored in 1971 by my mother, and finally a durable plastic umbrella stand featuring a pattern of red, green, and blue Vasarely boules, which might be displayed in the hall or in a room of Vasarely art. This fabulous collection will be carefully and quickly hand-packed and couriered to you, the high bidder in this auction, and I'll include a hand-written provenance.   I donate 100% of the proceeds from my auctions to charity so your payment will go to a good cause; Have a look at the "me" section of this web page for more details.      Please bid with confidence since I have over 2250 feedback, 100% positive. I will sell to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world, who has a PayPal account. NO RESERVE. Escrow will be utilized given the likely price of this auction. No refund (unless I inadvertently ship the wrong item to you).   Assessed at US$800,000   Victor Vasarely (Vásárhelyi Győző) (9 April 1906[1], Pécs - 15 March 1997, Paris) was a Hungarian French artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. Working as a graphic artist in the 1930s he created what is considered the first Op-art piece — Zebra, consisting of curving black and white stripes, indicating the direction his work would take. Over the next two decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art. His work won his international renown and he received 4 prestigious prizes. He died in Paris in 1997. Contents[hide] 1 Life and work 2 Awards 3 Museums 4 References 5 External links [edit] Life and work Vasarely was born in Pecs and grew up in Piešťany (then Pöstyén) and Budapest where in 1925 he took up medical studies at Budapest 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 Műhely (lit. "workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as the center of Bauhaus studies in Budapest. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer the whole range of its illustrious Bauhaus model, and concentrated on applied graphic art and typographic design. Vasarely’s excellence in drawing was quickly noticed. 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. Victor Vasarely became a graphics designer and a poster artist during the 1930’s who combined patterns and organic images with each other. Outdoor Vasarely artwork at the church of Pálos in Pécs Vasarely left Hungary and settled in Paris in 1930 working 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 played with the idea of opening up an institution modeled after Sándor Bortnyik Műhely’s 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 some 10 kilometers from the center 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-Marne département). 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: 1929-1944: Early graphics: Vasarely experimented with textural effects, perspective, shadow and light. His early graphic period results in works such as Zebras (1937), Chess Board (1935), and Girl-power (1934). 1944-1947: Les Fausses Routes - On the wrong track: During this period, Vasarely experimented with cubistic, futuristic, expressionistic, symbolistic and surrealistic paintings without developing a unique style. Afterwards, he said he was on the wrong track. He exhibited his works in the gallery of Denise René (1946) and the gallery René Breteau (1947). Writing the introduction to the catalogue, Jacques Prévert placed Vasarely among the surrealists. Prévert creates the term imaginoires (images + noir, black) to describe the paintings. Self Portrait (1941) and The Blind Man (1946) are associated with this period. 1947-1951: Developing geometric abstract art (optical art): Finally, Vasarely found his own style. The overlapping development are named after their geographical heritage. Denfert refers to the works influenced by the white tiled walls of the Paris Denfert-Rochereau metro station. Ellopsoid pebbles and shells found during a vacation in 1947 at the Breton coast at Belle Île inspired him to the Belles-Isles works. Since 1948, Vasarely usually spent his summer months in Gordes in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. There, the cubic houses led him to the composition of the group of works labelled Gordes/Cristal. He worked on the problem of empty and filled spaces on a flat surface as well as the stereoscopic view. Tribute to Malevitch (1954), Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas 1951-1955: Kinetic images, black-white photographies: From his Gordes works he developed his kinematic images, superimposed acrylic glass panes create dynamic, moving impressions depending on the viewpoint. In the black-white period he combined the frames into a single pane by transposing photographies in two colours. Tribute to Malevitch, a ceramic wall picture of 100 m² adorns the University of Caracas, Venezuela which he co-designed in 1954 with the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is a major work of this period. Kinetic art flourished and works by Vasarely, Calder, Duchamp, Man Ray, Soto, Tinguely were exhibited at the Denise René gallery under the title Le Mouvement (the motion). Vasarely published his Yellow Manifest. Building on the research of constructivist and Bauhaus pioneers, he postulated that visual kinetics (plastique cinétique) relied on the perception of the viewer who is considered the sole creator, playing with optical illusions. 1955-1965: Folklore planétaire, permutations and serial art: On 2 March 1959, Vasarely patented his method of unités plastiques. Permutations of geometric forms are cut out of a coloured square and rearranged. He worked with a strictly defined palette of colours and forms (three reds, three greens, three blues, two violets, two yellows, black, white, gray; three circles, two squares, two rhomboids, two long rectangles, one triangle, two dissected circles, six ellipses) which he later enlarged and numbered. Out of this plastic alphabet, he started serial art, an endless permutation of forms and colours worked out by his assistants. (The creative process is produced by standardized tools and impersonal actors which questions the uniqueness of a work of art.) In 1963, Vasarely presented his palette to the public under the name of Folklore planetaire. 1965-: Hommage à l'hexagone, Vega: The Tribute to the hexagon series consists of endless transformations of indentations and relief adding color variations, creating a perpetual mobile of optical illusion. In 1965, during the MOMA exhibition Responsive Eye dedicated to Optical Art, the press hailed Vasarely as the inventor and creator of Op-art. His Vega series plays with spherical swelling grids creating an optical illusion of volume. In October 1967, designer Will Burtin invited Vasarely to make a presentation to Burtin's Vision ’67 conference, held at New York University. On 5 June 1970, Vasarely opened his first dedicated museum with over 500 works in a renaissance palace in Gordes (closed in 1996). A second major undertaking was the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, a museum housed in a distinct structure specially designed by Vasarely. It was inaugurated in 1976 by French president Georges Pompidou. Sadly the museum is now in a state of disrepair, several of the pieces on display have been damaged by water leaking from the ceiling. Also, in 1976 his large kinematic object Georges Pompidou was installed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Vasarely Museum located at his birth place in Pécs, Hungary, was established with a large donation of works by Vasarely. In 1982 154 specially created serigraphs were taken into space by the cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien on board the French-Soviet spacecraft Salyut 7 and later sold for the benefit of UNESCO. In 1987, the second Hungarian Vasarely museum was established in Zichy Palace in Budapest with more than 400 works. He died in Paris on 15 March 1997. [edit] Awards 1964: Guggenheim Prize 1970: French Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur Art Critics Prize, Brussels Gold Medal at the Milan Triennale. Museum Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence [edit] Museums 1970-1996: Vasarely Museum in Gordes Palace, Vaucluse, France (closed) 1976: Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France 1976: Vasarely Museum, Pécs, Hungary 1987: Vasarely Museum, Zichy Palace, Óbuda, Budapest, Hungary [edit] References ^ Victor Vasarely - Association Vasarely - Aix-en-Provence Busch, Julia M., A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960s (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1 Holzhey, Magdalena, Vasarely (Taschen: 2005) ISBN 3-8228-3908-6 Robert C. Morgan, "Vasarely". New York: George Braziller, 2004 Frank Popper, Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society, 1968 [edit] External links Association Vasarely Vasarely Museum, Zichy Palace, Budapest     On permanent view; a cross-referenced guide to the New York galleries exhibiting contemporary artists. / [Compiled by N. Post & R. Harcourt]   Author:  Post, Nonnie. Title:  On permanent view; a cross-referenced guide to the New York galleries exhibiting contemporary artists. / [Compiled by N. Post & R. Harcourt] Publisher:  New York, P. Glenn Publications [1971] Description:  95 p. illus. 21 cm. Subject:  Art museums -- New York (State) Art, American -- New York (State) -- 20th century -- Directories. Added Author:  Harcourt, Renée. Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)ocm00219400   Paypal only (Cashiers Checks and Money Orders and Personal Checks simply take too long to get to me here on Guam and then must await an additional 15  business days to clear the local bank).   I ship to the address that pops up after the transaction. If that address is a Confirmed Address, then both you and I are protected by eBay and (if you pay using Paypal), also both protected by Paypal for loss or theft. If the address is not a Confirmed Address, then please know that, by completing this transaction with me, you are acknowledging that you understand that neither you nor I is protected by eBay or (even if you pay using Paypal) by Paypal for loss or theft or fraud, and you thereby waive your rights to same for this transaction.   I answer all questions promptly and cheerfully. All items are shipped free of charge.I leave positive feedback after smooth transactions (and hope that you the Buyer will do the same). Even if you do not buy from me or bid on my items, please do check out my six Reviews and four Guides in the REVIEWS & GUIDES section.   Happy Shopping - Bid High and Early! Place a Bid!