Nikos Engonopoulos

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Description

Nikos Engonopoulos
Two Italians
signed and dated 54 lower right
tempera on board
46.5 by 40cm., 18¼ by 15¾in.

Provenance

Dr. Spyros Seremetakis, Athens (a gift from the artist)

Exhibited

Venice, XXVII Exposition Biennale Internationale des Beaux Arts, 1954 (as Jeux Latins)
Athens, Benaki Museum, Nikos Engonopoulos, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 502

Literature

Katherina Perpinioti-Agazir, Nikos Engonopoulos - Son Univers Pictural, Athens, 2007, pp. 286 & 448, no. 502, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Engonopoulos is best known as a pioneering proponent of surrealism in Greek painting and literature. In his imagery, the association of reality and myth, classical and modern, embodies the preoccupations of modern Greece, and often, as in the case of the present work, other cultures with deep roots in classical antiquity, through the routes of the subconscious.