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Lot 139
  • 139

Alecos Fassianos

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alecos Fassianos
  • Blue Cyclist
  • signed in Greek upper left
  • oil on canvas
  • 97 by 74cm., 38ΒΌ by 29in.

Provenance

Alexander Iolas, Athens
Private Collection, Athens (by 1990)

Exhibited

Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Alecos Fassianos, Paintings 1953-1993, 1993, no. 54, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Original canvas. Ultraviolet light reveals some scattered spots of retouching in the figure, notably in the right of the cyclist's chest, in his waist, a spot in his neck and left arm and some small spots in his face. Held in a metallic narrow modern frame.
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