Op Art
OP ART STYLE
The Op art movement emerged in the 1960s, mirroring the counterculture of the time in its embrace of visual trickery, graphic shapes and bright colors.
Spreading across Europe and the Americas, the style — whose name is short for “optical art” — influenced advertising, fashion and interior design before fading in the early ’70s.
Op art remained significant, however, for artists and scientists interested in the nature of perception. And today, it’s seeing a resurgence of interest from collectors and interior designers.
Op artists played with the principles of perception, manipulating line, shape, patterns and color to create the illusion of depth and movement. They drew on and evolved methods developed by past movements, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, to produce intense visual experiences.
All the Op artists shared a focus on the gap between what is and what we perceive. Each, however, had a distinct approach to the issue and a unique visual style.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Op art that includes works by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley, Jesús Rafael Soto and more.
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Style: Op Art
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Structures universelles de l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Structures universelles du Damier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, CTA 102 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Croisées (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Croisées, 1973. Published and printed by Éditions du G...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Structures universelles du Damier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Structures universelles de l'Octogone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Croisées (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Croisées, 1973. Published and printed by Éditions du G...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Corpusculaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Corpusculaires, 1973. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Corpusculaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Corpusculaires, 1973. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Swiss Artist Large Color Symphony Silkscreen Serigraph Print Kinetic Op Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and numbered from edition of 90
Jakob Weder, (Switzerland, 1906-1990) Swiss color/music kinetic artist. known for his oil and tempera painting ...
Category
20th Century Op Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions I, 1972. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
VICTOR VASARELY - OEUVRES PROFONDES CINETIQUES III - 1973
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Victor Vasarely
Title: Profound Works III
Year: 1973
Not signed or numbered, as published
Dimensions: 12 in. by 12 in. Framed
Edition: From the Rare Limited Edition
Publisher...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Tiefenbilder (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on mylar and paperboard. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Not...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Mylar, Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Tiefenbilder (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on mylar and paperboard. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Not...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Mylar, Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Tiefenbilder (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on mylar and paperboard. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Not...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen, Mylar
Vasarely, Composition, Croisées (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Croisées, 1973. Published and printed by Éditions du G...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VEGA (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Linéaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Êtres et Fantômes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Linéaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Corpusculaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Corpusculaires, 1973. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
VICTOR VASARELY - OEUVRES PROFONDES CINETIQUES VIII - 1973
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Victor Vasarely
Title: Profound Works VIII
Year: 1973
Not signed or numbered, as published
Dimensions: 12 in. by 12 in. Framed
Edition: From the Rare Limited Edition
Publisher: Editions du Griffon Neuchatel
Suite: Profound Works
Medium: 3D, Serigraph on Acitate Over Serigraph on Paper
Condition: Excellent
Victor Vasarely (French/Hungarian, 1906–1997) is known as the father of the Op Art movement. As a painter, he created intricate abstractions that suggested depth and dimensionality using a variety of optical illusions, with surfaces seeming to bulge out of the canvas. His works present color, form, and pattern as a single interconnected element—a concept that was critical to the foundation of the Op Art movement and the focus of his mature works.
Vasarely initially studied medicine at the Budapest University in his early 20s, only to abandon his medical studies to attend to the Muhely Academy, the center of the Bauhaus movement in Budapest. While there, he was profoundly influenced by the work of color theorist and artist Josef Albers, as well as the Constructivist methods promoted by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky. While Vasarely’s earlier work was concerned more with color theory, during the 1950s and 1960s his work became more focused on the optical potential of the two-dimensional surface. He began to use complex and colorful patterns to actively engage the viewer’s eye, and to convey a sense of kinetic energy across the two-dimensional surface.
Vasarely’s work was heavily influenced by his time spent at Breton Beach of Belle Isle...
Category
1990s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes II (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions III, 1972. Published and printed by Éditi...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes III (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes III (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Tiefenbilder (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on mylar and paperboard. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Not...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Mylar, Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes III (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes I (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Corpusculaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Corpusculaires, 1973. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Linéaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Corpusculaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Corpusculaires, 1973. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, CTA 102 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes I (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Croisées (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Croisées, 1973. Published and printed by Éditions du G...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VEGA (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Linéaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Couple
By Yaacov Agam
Located in New York, NY
Yaacov Agam (Israeli, b. 1928)
Couple
Hand-signed and numbered
Silkscreen printed on Acrylic
H. 100mm
Edition 180
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Op Art art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Op art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Victor Vasarely, Roy Ahlgren, Victor Debach, and Yaacov Agam. Frequently made by artists working with Screen Print, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Op Art, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $66 and tops out at $350,000, while the average work sells for $1,616.
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