Vasarely. The plundering.
Fage editions| N° d'inventaire | 24049 |
| Format | 14 x 20 |
| Détails | 542 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782849756836 |
A wealthy octogenarian who took refuge in Puerto Rico, a brilliant academic who had fallen into disrepute and is now exiled in Togo, a Parisian lawyer in trouble with the law, and a man who has been pursuing them for thirty years in an attempt to reconstitute an artistic treasure scattered across the four corners of the planet, that of his grandfather, the generous visual artist Victor Vasarely, a fervent promoter of art for all, who, with his wife, had decided to bring together the majority of his works within a foundation recognized as being of public utility. If, with his play of forms and colors, the undisputed master of Op art captivated the attention of the greatest number in the 1970s, even at the highest levels of government, this considerable body of work and the artist's posthumous fortune have found themselves at the heart of resounding scandals. Family betrayals, underhand blows, legal maneuvers and academic shenanigans, games of seduction, political blackmail, legal setbacks, media battles... the episodes follow one another like in a crime novel. The estate of Victor and Claire Vasarely has, for thirty years, occupied the press and often mobilized the courts, offering the public multiple twists and turns that have regularly placed it back at the heart of the news. With its serial intrigues and its gallery of shady characters, "The Vasarely Affair" possesses all the codes of the detective story capable of transporting the reader behind the scenes of an organized looting.
Laetitia Sariroglou has been a journalist at La Provence since 1997, specializing in legal reporting.
Pierre Vasarely, grandson and universal legatee of Victor Vasarely, is president of the Vasarely Foundation.
A wealthy octogenarian who took refuge in Puerto Rico, a brilliant academic who had fallen into disrepute and is now exiled in Togo, a Parisian lawyer in trouble with the law, and a man who has been pursuing them for thirty years in an attempt to reconstitute an artistic treasure scattered across the four corners of the planet, that of his grandfather, the generous visual artist Victor Vasarely, a fervent promoter of art for all, who, with his wife, had decided to bring together the majority of his works within a foundation recognized as being of public utility. If, with his play of forms and colors, the undisputed master of Op art captivated the attention of the greatest number in the 1970s, even at the highest levels of government, this considerable body of work and the artist's posthumous fortune have found themselves at the heart of resounding scandals. Family betrayals, underhand blows, legal maneuvers and academic shenanigans, games of seduction, political blackmail, legal setbacks, media battles... the episodes follow one another like in a crime novel. The estate of Victor and Claire Vasarely has, for thirty years, occupied the press and often mobilized the courts, offering the public multiple twists and turns that have regularly placed it back at the heart of the news. With its serial intrigues and its gallery of shady characters, "The Vasarely Affair" possesses all the codes of the detective story capable of transporting the reader behind the scenes of an organized looting.
Laetitia Sariroglou has been a journalist at La Provence since 1997, specializing in legal reporting.
Pierre Vasarely, grandson and universal legatee of Victor Vasarely, is president of the Vasarely Foundation.