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Yiannis Gaitis
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Yiannis Gaitis
- La fenêtre
- signed lower right
- oil on canvas
- 130 by 97cm., 51¼ by 38¼in.
Literature
Loretta Gaitis-Charrat, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Yannis Gaitis. Peintures, sculptures, constructions, Angers, 2003, p. 219, no. 817, listed & illustrated
Catalogue Note
After completing his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Gaitis moved to Paris in 1954 and subsequently divided his time between these two cities. Around 1960 he developed a rich expressionistic vocabulary to fashion biomorphic forms that later gradually evolved into stereotypical human figures.
Treating this subject time and again, Yiannis Gaitis became famous for his depiction of 'little men' - figures without specific features that represented man as the product of mass culture, whose behaviour is uniform, predictable, and anonymous. Gaitis comments on the sterility of contemporary mass living, which implies the subjugation of individual identity to mundane communality, and its eventual loss in the modern world.