Composition

Details

Lajos Kassák (1887-1967)
Composition
signed 'Kassák' (lower right)
gouache on paper
12 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. (31 x 22 cm.)
Executed in the 1960s

Provenance

Árpád Mezei, Budapest & Connecticut.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 1978, lot 349.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The experts of the Kassák Museum, Budapest, have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Composition originally belonged to Árpád Mezei, a Hungarian psychologist, philosopher and art historian who has pioneered surrealist art philosophy with works such as Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste (Paris, 1959) or Genèse de la pensée moderne (Paris, 1950).

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