{"product_id":"ap_00796","title":"Composition bleue à la loutre 1940","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"556\"\u003eLong before becoming the father of Op Art, Victor Vasarely explored an entirely different visual language — one deeply rooted in surrealism, symbolism, and dreamlike imagery. This original 1940 lithograph is a rare and compelling example of his early work, blending fantastical elements and personal symbolism with striking compositional control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"558\" data-end=\"950\"\u003eRendered almost entirely in shades of midnight blue, the image features a panther-like black creature coiled around an assemblage of objects: grapes, pansies, butterflies, stars, and gears, all floating within an unreal, turbulent seascape. The piece teems with surrealist vocabulary — watchful eyes, mechanical cogs, erupting volcanoes — filtered through Vasarely's unique lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1198\"\u003eAt the bottom, Vasarely has written detailed color correction notes in his own hand, revealing the artist’s meticulous involvement in the printmaking process and offering a glimpse into his studio practice at a formative moment in his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1553\"\u003eHighly unusual, both in palette and subject, this lithograph captures Vasarely in transformation — straddling the boundaries between surrealism and the geometric abstraction that would later define his legacy. An extraordinary and scarce artifact for collectors of early Vasarely, surrealist graphics, or pre-war avant-garde printmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnimals - Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrial proof, catalog raisonné: Benavides 1203\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood condition, dirt\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vasarely Victor","offers":[{"title":"58 x 54 \/ A-","offer_id":50858191749447,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/9275\/3081\/files\/AP_00796Insta2.jpg?v=1756312102","url":"https:\/\/galerie1881.fr\/en\/products\/ap_00796","provider":"Galerie 1881","version":"1.0","type":"link"}