Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 10 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, Éditeur, Paris, Alain A.C. Mazo, Éditeur, Paris, Leon Amiel, Éditeur, New-York; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, April 5, 1972. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing completed in Paris on April 5, 1972, this folio was printed on vélin d'Arches in DCCC numbered examples. Examples have also been printed for the artists, friends and collaborators of this project. The original lithographs were printed by Mourlot and the typography is by Fequet and Baudier. Alain A.C. Mazo, Paris, and Leon Amiel, New York, publishers. VICTOR VASARELY (1908-1997) Internationally recognized as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He is the acknowledged leader of the Op Art movement, and perhaps as synonymous with its founding as Picasso is with the founding of Cubism. Vasarely’s innovations in color and optical illusion have had a strong influence on generations of contemporary artists. He devoted himself to his lifelong fascination with linear patterning, which led him to draw figurative and abstract patterned subjects, and multi-dimensional works of art by super-imposing patterned layers on one another to attain the illusion of depth.