Alfred RETH (1884-1966). "Harmonie de matières", pink and green, circa 1943. Oil and relief on wood, signed lower left. Height 16 cm - Width 25 cm Bibliography: Cserba Julia, Maklary Kalman, Alfred Reth. 1884-1966 Du cubisme à l'abstraction. Editions Maklary artsworks, 2003, p. 243 reproduced under number 183. Note: A naturalized French Hungarian painter, Alfred Reth is considered one of the great representatives of the Avant-Garde and the Ecole de Paris. He joined Cubism in 1911 and exhibited several paintings at the Salon des Indépendants, alongside Matisse and Rouault, and later Braque, Léger, Lhote, Metzinger and de Segonzac, who were to become his friends. After the First World War, he joined the Abstraction - création : Art non figuratif movement, alongside Arp, Georges Valmier, Herbin and Kupka, and steered his artistic production towards more abstract forms, without totally abandoning the figurative and collage art he was so fond of. His work can be seen at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.