Victor Vasarely

(Pecs, 1908 - Paris, 1997) He studied at the Poldini-Volkman Academy in Budapest and in 1930 he settled in Paris, working as a graphic designer for advertising agencies to migrate to figurative expression and then to constructive and geometric abstract art. Between 1936 and 1948 he regularly participates in the Salon des Surindependents and the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités and from 1948 he exhibits regularly at the Denise René gallery. In the sixties he shows his work in the Museum of Modern Art of NY and the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, among other numerous collective and individual exhibitions in Europe and America. He receives the Guggenheim International Prize in 1964 and the Grand Prize at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1965.