Vilmos Huszár artwork • painting • for sale Farm at Almen, the Netherlands
Vilmos Huszár
Boedapest (Hongarije) 1884-1960 Hierden
1884-1960
Farm at Almen, the Netherlands
oil on canvas laid down on panel 38.1 x 50.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1911 VIII
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 13,500
Provenance: coll. H. Vermolen, Den Haag; coll. J. Nieuwstraten, Den Haag, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: tent.cat. 's-Gravenhage, Kunsthandel Artz en De Bois, 'Tentoonstelling van werken door Simon Bussy, Maxime Dethomas, W. Huszár', 1912, cat.nr. 45.
Exhibited: 's-Gravenhage, Kunsthandel Artz en De Bois, 'Tentoonstelling van werken door Simon Bussy, Maxime Dethomas, W. Huszár', 27 maart-18 april 1912; Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, 'W. Huszár en W.C. Brouwer', sept. 1912.
Vilmos Huszár, Hungarian by birth, was one of the founders of De Stijl in 1917, along with Mondriaan, Van der Leck and Van Doesburg. Before that time, actually from 1915, his work is characterized by a bright use of colour and a flat stylization under the influence of the cubism of Picasso and Braque. His wish to eliminate depth and perspective in the performance eventually led to compositions of blocks and beams after 1917. He also applied this in interiors as 'space-colour compositions'. Work by Huszár is extremely rare because to this day a large part of his oeuvre is untraceable.
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