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Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika
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80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description
- Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika
- Spring
signed and dated 73 lower right
oil on paper laid on canvas
- 127 by 97cm., 50 by 38¼in.
Provenance
Private Collection, Athens
Exhibited
Athens, National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1973, no. 61
Athens, Benaki Museum, N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, The Apollonian – The Dionysian, 1906 –1994, 2006-7, illustrated in the catalogue
Catalogue Note
The Expressionist green, brown and gold strokes of the present work evoke the spirit of rebirth implied by the title, Spring, the blue strokes lending the work an overriding structure with their geometrical angularity. This swirling, vibrant explosion of colour appears to be built on a quintessentially-Greek pediment, locating the work in Greek culture and playing with notions of architectural structure and apparently abstract movement.