Without Lifting A Finger

373 - Peter Peri - 2 , a photo by A_O_G on Flickr. Another unique drawing by Peter Peri the "Younger"

Peter Peri, Intelligence of the Flowers (2005), at Counter Editions , a photo by rodcorp on Flickr. Peter Peri also has a grandson who's an artist. His name is also Peter Peri and he apparently lives and works in London. I found this intricate drawing of his on Flickr. I found a website that gives a bio and a little information re his art: http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/A/art4/artist_peri.html

Peter Peri in Leeds City Art Gallery , a photo by Briggate.com on Flickr. Another piece I found from Peri: "The Woman with Red Hair."

Sculpture (Peter Péri) , a photo by Britain Quaker Meeting Houses on Flickr. This sculpture--depicting a Friends/Quaker meeting--is located in Woodbrooke Study Centre, Birmingham. I once observed (glimpsed) a Quaker meeting in Indiana. Early in the morning, in a small building surrounded by autumn woods. I'll never forget what I saw. What I think I saw.

From the beginning of Berger's essay, "Peter Peri": I knew about Peter Peri from 1947 onwards. At that time he lived in Hampstead and I used to pass his garden where he displayed his sculptures. I was an art student just out of the Army. The sculptures impressed me not so much because of their quality -- at that time many other things interested me more than art -- but because of their strangeness. They were foreign looking. I remember arguing with my friends about them. They said they were crude and coarse. I defended them because I sensed that they were the work of somebody totally different from us. *** Ladislas Weisz was born June 13, 1899 in Budapest , Hungary . Antisemitism caused his family to change their name to the more Hungarian "Péri". When he moved to Germany, he was known as Laszlo Péri . After he moved to England, he adopted the name " Peter Peri ". His grandson, born in 1971, an artist, also has the name Peter Peri . Career...