Yiannis Gaitis

Epikentro Gallery, Patra
Purchased from the above by the present owner

Rome, Galerie Schneider; Venice, Galerie Il Traghetto, Como, Galerie Il Salotto, Gaitis, 1968-1969
Athens, National Gallery & Alexander Soutzos Museum, Yannis Gaitis, 1984
Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Everyone and Alone: Yannis Gaitis, 1923-1984, 2008, illustrated in the catalogue

Denis Zacharopoulos, 'Yannis Gaitis', in Contemporary Greek Painters, vol. VII, published by Ta Nea, 1967, p. 71
Dora Ilioupoulou-Rogan, 'The Yannis Gaitis Retrospective Exhibition at the National Gallery', in Kathimerini, Athens, 22-23 July 1984
Amanta Mihalopoulou, 'The Gaitis Retrospective in Thessaloniki', in Kathimerini, Athens, 15 October 1994
Bia Papadopoulou & Simos Kalogeras, 'Y. Gaitis, Les hommes en conserve', in The Art Magazine, no. 10, Athens, September 1994
Loretta Gaitis-Charrat, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Yiannis Gaitis, Paris, 2003, p. 245, no. 964, catalogued & illustrated; p. 422, illustrated

Original canvas. There are no signs of retouching visible under ultraviolet light. Apart from some lines of craquelure, notably in the black pigments of the heads around the edge, and a light vertical scratch in the upper border to the right of centre, this work is overall in good original condition. Sold unframed.
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