Victor Vasarely (b.1906 Pécs - d.1997 Paris) | 4437

Victor Vasarely is an artist of Hungarian origin who created and worked in France until his death, he was a representative of op-art. In 1928/1929, he enrolled in Sándor Bortnyk's private art school called Műhely (which can be translated as ,,Workshop"). Vasarely developed his geometric abstract art style, working in various materials, while using a minimum of colours and a sparse number of shapes. In 1970, the artist opened his first dedicated museum with more than 500 works in the Renaissance palace in Gordes (closed in 1996).