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The Greek Sale Nicosia Tuesday 24 May 2016 The Greek Sale nicosia tuesday 24 may 2016 The Greek Sale nicosia tuesday 24 may 2016 athens london nicosia The Greek Sale nicosia tuesday 24 may 2016 2 managing director Ritsa Kyriacou AUCTION marketing & sales director Marinos Vrachimis Tuesday 24 May 2016, at 8 pm auctioneer John Souglides 14 Evrou Street, Strovolos Nicosia, 2003 london representative Maro Limnios athens representative Michalis Michael viewing - NICOSIA CYPRIA , 14 Evrou Street, Strovolos, Nicosia, 2003 for bids and enquiries Tel. +357 22341122/23 Mob. +357 99582770 wednesday 18 to monday 23 may 2016, 10 am to 9 pm Fax +357 22341124 tuesday 24 may 2016, 10 am to1 pm Email: [email protected] to register and leave an on-line bid www.cypriaauctions.com catalogue design Miranda Violari english text Marinos Vrachimis Eleni Kyriacou photography Christos Panayides printing Cassoulides MasterPrinters ISBN 978-1-907983-11-5 6 01 Alexandros ALEXANDRAKIS Greek, 1913-1968 Maternity I signed and dated 24.VIII.53 lower right pencil on paper 35 x 49 cm PROVENANCE estate of the artist, Athens private collection, London LITERATURE Alexandrakis, The Nude, Gallery K, London, 1998, p. 70, illustrated 1 500 / 2 000 € Alexandrakis graduated from The School of Fine Art, Athens in 1937, having won all the major art awards; those of Portrait, Nude, Semi-nude and Composition. His achievements are considered unique in the history of the annual prize of the school. Alexandrakis is an artist of international repute, having forged a strong reputation in the USA where he regularly submitted work to The Guggenheim in New York for its annual exhibition. In 1950 he submitted two works for the design of a poster for the Marshal Plan, organised by the American Government. He won the first and second prize. Maternity I is a celebration of the maternal bond, this special relationship between mother and child. His striving for Ideal form shows a preoccupation with the meaning of Beauty. The posture of the body being so elegantly rendered is characteristic of his work. His work can be found in many public and private collections in Greece and Cyprus. Notably at The National Gallery Greece, The Municipality of Athens, The State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, The Leventis Gallery, The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Centre Foundation, The Hellenic War Museum. 8 02 Spyridon VICATOS Greek, 1884 or 1888-1960 Vase of flowers signed lower left oil on hardboard 36 x 23 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Athens 1 500 / 2 000 € Spyridon Vicatos studied at The School of Fine Arts, Athens from 1896 till 1898 under Nikiforos Lytras and Spyridon Prosalentis. Later in 1890 on a scholarship, he went to Munich to study at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the studio of Nicholaos Gysis and then with L. Von Lofftz. From 1909 to 1939 he taught at The School of Fine Arts, Athens. His teaching was in keeping with the academic tradition. His studies in Munich were instrumental to the development of his work. He was greatly influenced by German impressionism. His work atmospherically explores the antithesis of light and shade through the use of chiaroscuro. Vicatos held a number of solo exhibitions in Athens and participated in a number of prestigious group exhibitions such as the 1904 Glaspalast in Munich, the 1911 International Exhibition in Rome, the 1934 and 1936 Venice Biennale, 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris and the 1947 Grekisk Konst Konstakademien in Stockholm. His work is found in many public and private collections, notably that of: The National Gallery, Athens; The Athens Municipal Gallery; The Leventis Gallery, Nicosia; Koutlides and The National Bank of Greece. 10 03 Nikiforos LYTRAS Greek, 1832 -1904 Young girl signed and dated 2 June 84 lower right pencil on paper 13.5 x 7.5 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Athens Acquired by the present owner in 1976 from the son of Constantinos Maleas, Fotinos Maleas, as a set of three drawings in one frame. The original frame bears an inscription on the reverse. These drawings were verified by Dr Nelli Missirli. Other works from the same collection by Nikiforos Lytras are illustrated in the book of Lytras by Dr Nelli Missirli. 1 850 / 2 500 € Nikiforos Lytras was born on the island of Tinos in 1832. life correspond with the ideology against the ruling class at the time. His trips to Asia Minor At the age of eighteen he moved to Athens to study at and Egypt informed his paintings in depicting The School of Fine Arts, where he completed his studies children of colour and other elements of in 1856. Later in 1860 on a scholarship from the Greek Anatolia. During the final period of his life he government he went to Munich to study at The Royal painted many scenes that explored aging, Academy of Fine Arts. There, he was taught by Karl von loneliness and fear of death. Piloty. During that period Lytras focused on historically themed paintings. His subjects were inspired by Greek In 1879 he married Irene Kyriakidi, the Mythology and history. daughter of a tradesman from Smyrna, together they had six children. In the summer of 1865 before returning to Greece he met Nicholaos Gysis in Munich and together they studied the Lytras was one of the greatest Greek masterpieces of German Museum collections. painters. His contribution in almost forty years of teaching was also of great importance, as On his return to Athens, Lytras became a professor at The he not only influenced younger generations, Athens School of Fine Arts in the department of painting, a but was involved in the school’s restructuring. position he held for the remainder of his life. Lytras died at the age of 72 (in 1904), after Together with Nicholaos Gysis, he travelled to Asia Minor in a brief illness that is believed to have been 1873 and Paris in 1876. caused by chemicals found in paint. After returning to Greece, Lytras worked on portraiture, still life and everyday scenes. Lytra’s paintings on everyday 12 04 Jason MOLFESSIS Greek, 1925-2009 Untitled signed and dated ’60 on the reverse oil on canvas 19 x 33 cm PROVENANCE private collection, London 600 / 800 € Molfessis was born in Athens in 1925. In 1942 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied under Constantinos Parthenis, Dimitris Biskinis and Epaminondas Thomopoulos. He graduated in 1946. Simultaneously (from 1942 to 1944), he studied Law at the Aristotle University, Athens. He then studied the Byzantine Art of Northern Greece whilst serving in the army. In 1950 he moved to Paris where he studied fresco at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. From 1950 to 1970 Molfessis’ worked mainly in the medium of painting. He begun with figurative and landscape themes and then proceeded into abstraction, using a restricted palette of mainly whites and blacks, grays and ochre. The work of this period is quite dramatic and characterised by lyricism and expressionism. From 1960 onwards he was influenced by technological advances in the field of computing and incorporated this into his work, making him a creative pioneer worldwide. From 1968 onwards Molfessis started to focus more on sculpture. He created large scale public commissions in Paris and other French cities. He used cement and various mineral metals to create 3D works that investigate the relationship between the solid and the void, light and shade, rough and smooth surfaces and varying depth levels. 14 05 Jason MOLFESSIS Greek, 1925-2009 Untitled signed and dated ’60 on the reverse oil on canvas 22 x 33 cm PROVENANCE private collection, London 600 / 800 € He has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions internationally. Just to name a few: The 1952 Exposition Internationale, Paris, the 1954 Salon d’Automne, Paris, at Musée de la Ville de Paris in 1955, at Cincinatti Art Museum in 1956, in ‘Peintres et Sculpteurs Grecs de Paris’, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris in 1962 and the 1963 Sao Paolo Biennale and so on. Molfessis lived in Paris until 1988. He then returned to Athens as he was appointed as a professor at The School of Fine art, Athens. In 1990 he retired and moved to Paris, frequently visiting Greece until his death in 2009. Works of Jason Molfessis form part of renowned public and private collections such as The National Gallery, Athens; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musée d’art Moderne, Le Havre and The Macedonian Museum of Modern art. 16 06 George LAPPAS Greek, 1950 -2016 Red Figure signed and dated 05 on the base mixed media 75 x 65 x 20 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Athens 5 000 / 8 000 € Lappas was born in Cairo. In 1958 his family was forced to leave Egypt and move to Athens, since the Nasser regime was persecuting the Greek population. He initially studied psychology at Reed College, Portland, USA and worked in several psychiatric institutions as a volunteer. In 1974 he went to India on a T.J. Watson Foundation grant, where he studied the architecture of Indian temples and a year later he moved to London to study architecture at the Architectural Association. Between 1977 and 1982 he studied sculpture at The School of Fine Arts, Athens under Y. Pappas and G. Nikolaidis. Two years after graduating he continued his art studies at École des Beaux Arts in Paris on a French state scholarship. His work includes sculpture, construction and installation, usually large scale, exploring the relationship between form and space, as well as the interaction between viewer and artwork. The remodeling of architectural contexts dominates his early installations, where three-dimensional constructs of various materials can be rearranged in different ways, rendering a sense of motion and volatility.
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