Original Victor Vasarely Poster Exhibition at Le Point Cardinal, 1964
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| Artist | Victor Vasarely |
| Year | 1964 |
| Exhibition | Victor Vasarely — Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris |
| Size | 50 × 65 cm (19.5 × 25.5 in) |
| Type | Original vintage lithographic exhibition poster |
| Backing | Freshly linen backed |
| Condition | A- — Overall Good |
This is an original lithographic poster created in 1964 by Victor Vasarely for his exhibition at the Galerie Le Point Cardinal in Paris — one of the most important venues of his Parisian career, alongside the Galerie Denise René. The year 1964 marks a pivotal moment in Vasarely's development: it is the year he begins his Vonal period, in which line and colour return together to his work after the austerity of his black-and-white phase, and the year he embarks on his celebrated cellular structures — works in which flat geometric forms pulse and vibrate with an energy that seemed to make the canvas itself breathe. This poster is both a document and an embodiment of that transformation.
Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), born Győző Vásárhelyi in Pécs, Hungary, and naturalised French in 1961, is universally recognised as the father of Op Art — the movement that placed optical perception at the centre of the artistic experience and made the viewer's eye an active participant in the creation of the work. Trained at the Budapest Bauhaus under Sándor Bortnyik, shaped by years of commercial graphic design in Paris for agencies including Havas and Draeger, Vasarely brought a rigour and a systems-thinking to fine art that was entirely without precedent. His work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, the Tate, the Smithsonian, and institutions across the world. He redesigned the Renault logo, created monumental public works across France, and in 1965 was consecrated at the landmark Responsive Eye exhibition at MoMA in New York — the show that brought Op Art to a global audience.
The poster itself — geometric, optical, composed with the economy and precision that defines his graphic language — is a Vasarely in miniature: a work of art that announces a work of art, designed by the same hand and with the same intent.
The poster has been freshly linen backed — the gold standard of vintage poster conservation — ensuring the piece is stable, flat, and ready for framing.
A rare document from a pivotal year — Vasarely at the threshold of his greatest period, at the gallery that showed him first.