Carlos Cruz-Diez - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | Phillips
  • Artist Biography

    Carlos Cruz-Diez

    Venezuelan • 1923 - 2019

    Carlos 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.

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Couleur Additive: four plates; and Untitled

1970; and 1975
Four screenprints in colours, from the set of eight on light-weight card paper; and one screenprint in colours, on wove paper, all with full margins,
four I. 60 x 60 cm (23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
one I. 63 x 63 cm (24 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
all S. 75 x 75 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)

all signed, dated '70' or '75' respectively and numbered 175/200, 31/200, 183/200, 174/200 and 4/175 respectively in pencil, all published by Denise René Editions, Paris, two framed, three unframed.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £6,000

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 21 January 2016 2pm & 6pm