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AUCTIONEER Nicosia, Cyprus (Head Office) George Kyriacou 14 Evrou Street 2003 Strovolos CATALOGUE SUPERVISION Nicosia, Cyprus Ritsa Kyriacou Phone: +357 22 341122 CATALOGUE-DESIGN-EDITING Phone: +357 97 673876 En Tipis Publications Fax: +357 22 341124 PRINTING Athens, Greece Negresco 42 Lagoumitzi (Flat 5) Neos Kosmos PHOTOGRAPHY Athens, 11745 Christos Andreou Greece Costas Savvides Phone: +30 69944382236 ISBN 978-1-907983-16-0 London, U.K. FRONT COVER 101-103 Heath Street Lot 33 Hampstead Alecos Fassianos London, NW3 6SS United Kingdom BACK COVER Lot 53 Phone: +44 7768365947 Lefteris Economou INFORMATION-BIDS IMPORTANT NOTICE Nicosia The works included in this auction are Ritsa Kyriacou offered in their existing state’’ with Athens the exception of counterfeits for which Michalis Constantinou please see the terms of this auction in the last pages of the catalogue. [email protected] All interested parties are urged www.cypriaauctions.com to examine the works personally before the auction. A detailed report Written bids / Telephone bids for each work can be obtained You can place a written bid or request on request. a telephone bid on the lots you are interested in through our website Artist’s Resale Rights: On lots sold up www.cypriaauctions.com to €50 000 4% will be added to the hammer price, which is the artist’s re- Live online bidding sale right applicable if the artist is alive or has died in the Is available for this auction through last 70 years. www.invaluable.com (For lots sold above €50 000 the Artist’s Resale Right is reduced to 3%) CYPRIA FINE ART AUCTIONS AUCTION Tuesday 15 September 2020, at 8.00 pm 14 Evrou Street, 2003 Strovolos, Nicosia VIEWING, NICOSIA 14 Evrou Street, 2003 Strovolos, Nicosia Monday 15 June - Friday 31 July Tuesday 1 - Monday 14 September August closed Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and 4.00 pm to 7.00 pm Saturday 9.00 am - 2.00 pm Tuesday 15 September, 9.00 am - 1.00 pm 1 Victor IOANNIDES Cypriot, 1903-1984 Village scene signed and dated lower left 74 dedicated lower right ink drawing on paper 18 x 24 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 300 – 500 2 Victor IOANNIDES Cypriot, 1903-1984 Cyprus village signed and dated lower left 74 dedicated lower right ink drawing on paper 18 x 24 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 300 – 500 4 / CYPRIA 3 Nicolas SPERLING Russian, 1881 - 1940 Greek in national costume Benaki Museum - Limited edition print edition of 300 25 x 33 cm PROVENANCE The collection of the late John Boxshall and Margarita Ketsea. John Boxshall was a descendant of the Romanian Royal family and Margarita Ketsea of the Russian Royal family and lady in waiting to Queen Fredericka of Greece. They married in 1952 at the Royal Palace in Athens; it was a grand wedding at the time. LITERATURE From the Benaki Museum limited edition (300 copies) folio publication “Hellenic National Costumes” € 300 - 500 4 P. ROSSIDES Cypriot Grandmother seated at the steps of her home signed and dated 1978 lower right oil on board 40 x 51 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 300 - 500 FINE ART AUCTIONS / 5 5 Kostas AVERKIOU Cypriot, 1917-1981 Cyprus 1974 signed lower right and titled Κυπρος 1974 in the centre woodcut artists proof 28 x 24 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 400 - 600 6 Glynn HUGHES Cypriot, b. British, 1931-2014 Green Line, 1974 signed and dated lower right mixed media on paper 26 x 35 cm PROVENANCE Private collection Cyprus € 500 - 700 6 / CYPRIA 7 Kostas AVERKIOU Cypriot, 1917-1981 Cyprus 1975 signed and dated 1975 lower right Kostas Averkiou was a self-taught painter and engraver. and numbered lower left After finishing primary school Averkiou worked as a carpenter alongside his father, woodcut developing relevant skills for his career that followed as an artist. In 1945 he set up his edition 2/50 own workshop in Nicosia. He worked mainly as a sign-maker and designer of commercial 40 x 50 cm posters. PROVENANCE Averkiou devoted much of his time to oil-painting and engraving, the latter of which private collection, Cyprus he learnt from Telemachos Kanthos. By 1957 he was considered an esteemed engraver. Averkiou exhibited his work in a number of solo exhibitions which included shows € 650 - 800 in 1971 in Athens and in 1972 in Nicosia. Additionally he participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as: The Pancyprian Art Exhibition, 1947, Apophasis Gallery, 1955 and 1956, The VI International Moscow Festival, 1957(where he was awarded a prize), The Exhibition of Eighteen Cypriot Artists, Athens, 1962 and The 1963 Alexandria Biennale. His work can be found in numerous public collections such as: The State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Centre Foundation, The Leventis Gallery, The Archbishop Makarios III Cultural Centre Foundation and so on. FINE ART AUCTIONS / 7 8 Andreas MAKARIOU Cypriot, b. 1955 Mythological I signed lower right acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 350 - 700 9 Andreas MAKARIOU Cypriot, b. 1955 Mythological II signed lower right acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 350 - 700 8 / CYPRIA 10 Nikoletta ANTONOPOULOU Greek, b. 1955 Sailing signed lower right acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Greece € 800 - 1 200 11 Marios VARELAS Greek b. 1970 Red head woman signed lower right acrylic on canvas 70 x 90 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 500 - 800 FINE ART AUCTIONS / 9 12 Theophilos KATSIPANOS Greek b. 1975 Figure signed lower right oil on canvas 50 x 40cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 500 - 900 13 Angel MIHAILOV Bulgarian Still life with pomegranates signed lower right oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 700 - 1 000 10 / CYPRIA 14 Haralambos POTAMIANOS Greek, 1909-1958 Still Life signed centre left oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Greece € 350 - 700 15 Sarandis KARAVOUSIS Greek, 1938-2011 Still life signed lower left oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Greece € 2 000 - 3 000 FINE ART AUCTIONS / 11 16 Andreas KARAYAN Cypriot, b. 1943 Young Soldiers signed and dated 1984 lower right with dedication lower left, pencil drawing on paper 48 x 34 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 200-400 17 Nikos PISSAS Greek, b.1956 Male Nude, 1990 signed and dated lower right, 1990 oil pastel on paper 66 x 49 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus €300 – 500 18 Andreas KARAYAN Cypriot, b. 1943 Young man wearing a helmet signed and dated lower right, 82 mixed media on paper 24 x 16 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 100-200 12 / CYPRIA 19 Andreas KARAYAN Cypriot, b. 1943 Male Nudes signed and dated lower right, 77 oil on canvas 82 x 100 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Cyprus € 4 000 - 7 000 FINE ART AUCTIONS / 13 20 BRITISH SCHOOL 19th century The churches of Taxiarhon and Profitis Elias titled and dated lower right Athens 1 August 42 (1842) watercolour on paper (brunaille) 19 x 31.5 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Greece € 700 - 1 200 NOTE watercolour a rare documentation. The churches of Profitis Elias and Taxiarhon built in the 12th This work of art is done on ‘WHATMAN TURKEY MILL’ century were located in the Roman Agora of Athens. These artist’s paper bearing the appropriate watermark. churches were demolished in 1852 during the archaeological This particular watermark places the making of the paper to excavations of the area. between the mid 1820s and the early 1840s as this was the As these churches were demolished so early there are only period in which the Whatman Paper Company produced a few works of art depicting them, making this this paper. 21 Hector DOUKAS Greek, 1885-1969 Sunset over Athens and the Acropolis signed lower right oil on board 17 x 22.5 cm PROVENANCE private collection, Greece € 500 - 800 14 / CYPRIA 22 Konstantinos PARTHENIS Greek, 1878-1967 The adoration of the Magi signed and dated lower right titled and dated Το προσκύνηµα των Μάγων (Επανάληψη 1941) lower left ink on paper 28 x 21 cm PROVENANCE estate of the artist, thence by descent, purchased by the present owner € 2 000-4 000 NOTE Lower left, the work bares a stamp with the following: ΠΑΡΘΕΝΗ stamp, along with her signature and it is dated. ΥΠΟΘΗΚΟΦΥΛΑΚΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ, ΑΘΗΝΑΙ. The first version of the The Adoration of the Magi was created Έπισηµη άπογραφή έργων τού Κωνσταντίνου Παρθένη Νο by Konstantinos Parthenis around 1919-1920. Parthenis re- 1. 20-12-1967 Μερίδα Σοφίας Κ. Παρθένη αύξων αρ. 14 visited this subject many times creating variations of this Τίτλος: Το προσκύνηµα των Μάγων (Επανάληψη – Αθήναι work, the work offered for sale being one of them. 1941) Lower right there it bares a ΣΟΦΙΑ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ FINE ART AUCTIONS / 15 Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann, the most famous member of the In order for Rottmann to enhance his repertoire, in 1826/7 King Rottmann family of painters, was a German landscape painter. He Ludwig I of Bavaria sponsored Rottmann’s travels in Italy. was a member of a circle of artists around King Ludwig I of Bavaria In 1834 Rottmann traveled to Greece to prepare for a commission (father of King Otto, the first King of Greece), who commissioned from King Ludwig. large landscape paintings exclusively from him. Of his Greece paintings, Ammer Lake and Marathon are in the Rottmann had his first drawing lessons from his father, Friedrich National Gallery, Berlin; The Acropolis of Sikyon and Corfu in the Rottmann, who taught drawing at the university in Heidelberg.
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