The framed size: 23 1/2" x 19 1/2" x 2", Canvas size: 16" x12". Oil on canvas. The title:"VIRAGOS XII", painted on 1988, Signed and dated in brown pigment on lower rightside. DUS(born 1941), Hungary.Laszlo Dus was considered a brilliant young artist behind the Iron Curtain before moving to the United States at the age of thirty-three, having already exhibited in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Holland.Since arriving in the U.S., he has created monotypes and lithographic editions which extended the limitations of the media to accommodate a myriad of textures and abstract compositions and colors.His paintings exhibit an extraordinary range of composition, color and ideas.He ranks as one of the world's finest and most collected modern artists.Dus' achievements and abilities have been recognized across America, where his works have found a place in many major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The National Gallery of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.), the Chicago Art Institute and the Detroit Institute of Arts. |
