Dóra Maurer. Original photo, 1975

B/w glossy photo, 9 x 14 cm. Photo work by Maurer from 1975 on verso, featuring hands in movement. Published as a postcard in 1976 by Sumus editions in Budapest. Verso stamped 'maurer 1975' and 'edition sumus budapest 1976'. Very good copy. SUMUS (We Are Together) was an informal group set up by Dóra Maurer and Tibor Gáyor between the 1970s and 1980s, organizing international exchanges of Hungarian and Eastern European underground artists. Maurer and Gáyor were able to travers the Iron Curtain at the time due to their double Hungarian-Austrian residencies.

Dóra Maurer (1937-2026) is one of Hungary’s major conceptual artists. A retrospective of her work was held in 2019 at Tate Modern in London. Her works are held in collections of renowned museums including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and the Tate Modern, London.