The Family, c.1945

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Object Description

‘The Family,’ also referred to as ‘Family Group,’ was first exhibited in “Sculptures and Etchings,” Péri’s solo show held in 1947 at the Archer Gallery, London.

Artist: Peter László Péri
Medium: Pigmented concrete
Date: c.1945
Dimensions: 71 x 71 cm

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Peter László Péri (1899 – 1967) was a Hungarian artist and sculptor renowned for his constructivist artworks in the 1920s. He was involved in the Hungarian avant-garde from an early age, joining Janos Macza’s innovative theatre workshop in 1917. After moving to and being expelled from Paris, he settled in Berlin, becoming close with a group of exiled left-wing Hungarian avant-garde artists, including László Moholy-Nagy. An émigré to England in 1933 from Nazi-occupied Germany, Péri worked more figuratively after the war.

Two of his sculptural relief works are on display at Tate Britain in the Historic and Modern British Art section 1920-1940, and several of his works are in MoMA. His long-lost Festival of Britain sculpture ‘The Sunbathers’ was recently restored and installed at Waterloo Station.

Collections: Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA, NYC; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; British Museum and Tate Britain, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; IVAM, Valencia; Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague; Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva; Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne etc.

Object History

Presented in collaboration with the Artist’s Estate

Object Literature

Arie Hartog, Dorothea Schöne, Veronika Wiegartz (Ed.) (2023) ‘Péri’s People – Peter László Péri (1899–1967)’, With contributions from Dorothea Schöne, Arie Hartog, Veronika Wiegartz and Robert Burstow, Edited by Kunsthaus Dalhlem.

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Good condition

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