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Thanos Tsingos
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description
- Thanos Tsingos
- Still Life with Red and Blue Flowers
- signed and dated 59 lower left; signed, dated and numbered 59 / no. 100 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 161.5 by 128.5cm., 63½ by 50½in.
Provenance
Sale: Bonhams & Butterfields, 18 November 2008, lot 95
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Catalogue Note
Despite his association with the Ecole de Paris, Tsingos' paintings defy classification as he is in fact one of the first Greek artists also to embrace the teachings of the Art Informel movement. The term Art Informel was first used by the French writer Michel Tapié, the author of Un Art Autre (Art of Another Kind) in 1952. Tapié organized art exhibitions with this title that included works by Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning and Alberto Burri among others. This European movement chose to practise a style of painting that defied the classical teachings of composition and line. It emphasized spontaneity, irrationality and freedom of form.