Vasarely’s serigraphs: a selection

Serigraphy derives from simple stencil printing. It appeared in Japan at around 500 AD and in China at around 1000 AD, as a sophisticated artistic procedure, and its technique has since been renewed several times. Vasarely made silkscreen prints from 1953 onwards. The works were made at the Arcay graphic studio, under his personal supervision, in limited runs, with each copy numbered and signed by the artist and sold as an original object of art. Vasarely often covered his kinetic objects, metal- and plastic-based multiples, with serigraphs. The Galerie Denise René, which supported experimental art and published most of Vasarely’s albums of serigraphs, opened a showroom that exclusively sold multiples, albums of serigraphs and other prints.