Victor VASARELY - Olympia, 1971 - Original screenprint - Signed in the plate

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Victor Vasarely : (1906-1997) French painter from hungarian origin Vasarely is known as the father of optical art or "op-art". His works are exhibited in the world's greatest museums : The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan); The Vasarely Foundation, Centre Pompidou (France); The Walker Art Center, MOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim, New York (US); Das Museum Folkwang (Germany); The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal); The Kröller-Müller Museum (Dutchland); The Queensland art Gallery (Australia); The Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland); The Horsens Kunstmuseum (Danemark); The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italie); The National Gallery of Scotland, Tate Collection (UK); The Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein); The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina); The Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM); The Henie Onstad Museum (Norway); The Victor Vasarely Museum, Pécs (Hungary); The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas (Venezuela); The Museum of fine-arts, Montreal (Canada)...