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Carlos Cruz-Diez
Transchromies
- Estimate
- $4,000 - 6,000
$3,810
Lot Details
The complete set of five manipulable screenprints in colors, on light wove paper and clear acetate, with full margins, contained in the original cardboard sleeves, with title page, colophon, and artist's texts in English and Spanish, all contained in the original card portfolio box with printed title.
1965
all sleeves 12 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (32.1 x 32.1 cm)
portfolio 12 7/8 x 12 7/8 x 1/2 in. (32.7 x 32.7 x 1.3 cm)
portfolio 12 7/8 x 12 7/8 x 1/2 in. (32.7 x 32.7 x 1.3 cm)
Signed with initials in black ink and stamp-numbered '094' on the colophon, from the edition of 250 (there were also 10 sets reserved for libraries), published by Éditions Denise René, Paris.
Specialist
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Venezuelan | B. 1923 D. 2019Carlos Cruz-Diez moved from his native Caracas to Paris in 1960. He is a major protagonist in the field of kinetic and Op Art, a movement based on "an awareness of the instability of reality."
Inspired by such artists as Georges Seurat and Josef Albers, his work focuses on the kinetic energy of color and its existence as an autonomous and evolving reality, independent from form or structure. Much of his work, in particular his Physichromie series, is created by plotting lines of contrasting color alongside each other, creating an illusion of movement as the viewer's position relative to the artwork shifts.