£450
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Etching and aquatint, 1950, signed and dated in pencil to margin, unframed, and another unframed etching by the same hand
Biography: Peri was born in Hungary in Budapest and although initially apprenticed as a bricklayer he became a student at the workshops for proletariat fine arts before going on to study architecture for two years. First moving to Paris, followed by Vienna and then Berlin, Peri had the first of two exhibitions with Moholy-Nagy, where he produced irregularly shaped wall reliefs. A radical and left wing thinker Peri was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany and in 1933 Peri emigrated to England with his wife Mary Macnaughton. Once in England Peri was invited to produce a variety of sculptural work for London County Council including the Festival of London and Lambeth Borough. He is represented in museums worldwide including the Tate Gallery, MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Arts Council. Alongside his sculptural work Peri produced a variety of highly regarded engraved work.