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The Greek Sale New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 18 November 2020 The Greek Sale New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 18 November 2020 The Greek Sale New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 18 November 2020 at 2pm VIEWINGS BIDS ENQUIRIES REGISTRATION +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London IMPORTANT NOTICE Viewing by appointment To bid via the internet please visit Anastasia Orfanidou Please note that all customers, recommended. Please note www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7468 8356 irrespective of any previous that Bonhams observe social anastasia.orfanidou activity with Bonhams, are Please note that bids should be @bonhams.com distancing guidelines in our required to complete the Bidder salerooms and we ask that submitted no later than 4pm on Registration Form in advance of all clients wear masks or face the day prior to the sale. Athens coverings when attending our Terpsichore Maria Angelopoulou the sale. The form can be found viewings or auctions. New bidders must also provide Lola-Theodora Stefanidou at the back of every catalogue proof of identity when submitting Philippe Glyptis and on our website at www. Athens bids. Failure to do this may result Timos Economopoulos bonhams.com and should be 36 Amalias Avenue in your bid not being processed. +30 210 36 36 404 returned by email or post to the 10558, Athens Telephone bidding will only be [email protected] specialist department or to the Wednesday 4 November accepted on lots with a lower [email protected] bids department at 11am to 8pm estimate in excess of £1,000. 7, Neofytou Vamva Street Thursday 5 November 106 74 Athens [email protected] 11am to 8pm Live online bidding is Friday 6 November available for this sale CUSTOMER SERVICES To bid live online and / or leave 11am to 8pm Please email [email protected] Monday to Friday internet bids please go to Saturday 7 November with “Live bidding” in the subject 8.30am to 6pm www.bonhams.com/ 11am to 6pm line 48 hours before the auction +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 auctions/26246 and click on the to register for this service. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 Fax Register to bid link at the top left London of the page 101 New Bond Street ILLUSTRATIONS Please see back of catalogue W1S 1SR, London Front cover: Lot 33 for important notice to bidders. Sunday 15 November Back cover: Lot 24 11am to 3pm Inside front cover: Lot 22 As a courtesy to intending Monday 16 November Inside back cover: Lot 4 bidders, Bonhams will provide a 9am to 4.30pm written Indication of the physical Tuesday 17 November condition of lots in this sale if a 9am to 4.30pm request is received up to 24 Wednesday 18 November hours before the auction starts. 9am to 12pm This written Indication is issued subject to Clause 3 of the Notice SALE NUMBER to Bidders. 26246 CATALOGUE £20.00 Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Sale Information BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & For small sized paintings VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE if the largest dimension is Will be applied at the current rate To bid via the internet please visit All sold lots will remain in smaller than 70cm, there on all above charges www.bonhams.com collections in New Bond Street will be a charge of £200+VAT without charge until 5.30pm The following symbol is used PAYMENTS Wednesday 2 December 2020. For medium sized paintings to denote that VAT is due on Buyers Lots not collected by this time if the largest dimension is the hammer price and buyer’s +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 will be returned to the Greek between 71cm and 150cm, premium department storage charges there will be a charge of £250+VAT SELLERS may apply. † VAT 20% on hammer price Payment of sale proceeds For large sized paintings and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Bonhams can arrange shipment if the largest dimension is to the Athens office on behalf 151cm or larger, there will * VAT on imported items at a VALUATIONS, TAXATION of successful purchasers. be a charge of £300+VAT. preferential rate of 5% on hammer & HERITAGE Those who wish to ship their price and the prevailing rate on +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 items to Athens please inform PLEASE NOTE THAT buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax us by 6pm on the day of the DIMENSIONS [email protected] sale for your lots to be included INCLUDE FRAMES Y These lots are subject to CITES in our consolidated shipment. regulations, please read the CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS Tel: +44 (0) 20 7468 8356 Sculptures information in the back of the To obtain any Bonhams catalogue Email: [email protected] For sculptures below 150cm, catalogue. or to take out an annual there will be a charge of subscription: £250+VAT. Subscriptions Department +44 (0) 1666 502200 For sculptures exceeding 150 cm +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax there will be a charge of £300+VAT [email protected] SHIPPING For information and estimates on domestic and international shipping as well as export licenses please contact Alban Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 [email protected] The Greek Sale 1 AR NIKOS HADJIKYRIAKOS-GHIKA (1906-1994) Triggering opposing pairs, such as interior-exterior and naturalistic- Family afternoon abstract, Family afternoon is a well thought out, tightly designed signed and dated ‘GHIKA 46’ (lower left) and dynamically balanced composition that draws from indigenous encaustic on canvas laid on card sources and contemporary genre to explore the complex issue of 23 x 18 cm. Greekness. Prefacing the catalogue for the artist’s 1946 one man Painted in 1946. show at the British Council in Athens, which included this lot, art critic Derek Patmore noted: “Ghika is the most remarkable of the younger £5,000 - 7,000 Greek painters. Each of his pictures is the result of a long meditation €5,500 - 7,700 and a carefully evolved technique. Essentially an intellectual, his use of line, form, and colour has a carefully built-up design which gives his Provenance work a unique intensity of colour and the visual pleasure of a perfectly Private collection, Athens. conceived work of art.” Exhibited The 1946 exhibition catalogue was also prefaced by poet Kimon Athens, The British Council, Pictures by Ghika, November 15-25, Friar, who elaborated on the idea of Ghika as composer, discussing 1946, no. 33 (listed in the exhibition catalogue). his works in terms of music and rhythm: “Ghika’s paintings are all examples of the artist’s control over his medium and his meaning, Literature and they are all witnesses of that triple counter-pointing of the verb Angloelliniki Epitheorisi, vol. 2, no. 11, January 1947, p. 363 “compose”: they are a designer’s compositions in line, colour and (discussed). space; they are the work of a musical composer; and their final K.C. Valkana, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, His Painting Oeuvre, resolution is a composure which the classical artist imposes on the Benaki Museum edition, Athens 2011, fig. 140, p. 281 (illustrated). recalcitrant materials of life to create a cosmos for which we all long and dream but which only the artist may invoke.” For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 2 AR YIANNIS TSAROUCHIS (1910-1989) Woman from Salamis/ Koulouriotissa signed in Greek and dated ‘34’ (upper right) oil on canvas laid on panel 46 x 25 cm. Painted in 1934. £12,000 - 18,000 €13,000 - 20,000 Provenance Private collection, Athens. Exhibited Athens, The British Council, Exhibition Yannis Tsarouchis 1932-1952, February 17-29, 1952, no. 13 (possibly). Literature E. Florou, Tsarouchis – Painting, doctoral dissertation, Athens 1989, vol. 1, p. 38-39 (discussed), p. 215 (catalogued), vol. 2, fig. 129 (illustrated). E. Florou, Yannis Tsarouchis, his Painting and his Era, Nea Synora - A.A. Livanis editions, Athens 1989, no. 140, p. 18 (mentioned), p. 21 (discussed), p. 19, fig. 16 (illustrated). Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) Painting, Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, Athens 1990, no. 48 (illustrated). Yannis Tsarouchis Painting, Comments, Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, Athens 1990, no. 48, p. iv (discussed). A work that marks a turning point in Tsarouchis’s career, as noted by the artist himself,1 Woman from Salamis conveys a striking immediacy and resilient allure. Broad planes of earthy colours highlighted by solid outlines and supplemented by highly stylised motifs, such as the clouds and the sun, build up a solid edifice of pure form, stretching beyond the confines of the transient and perfectly matching the young maiden’s silent inflexibility and hieratic posture. We are reminded of Byzantine icons, Fayum portraits, Theofilos, and Kontoglou, the leading advocate for the revival of the Byzantine pictorial tradition, under whom Tsarouchis apprenticed for four years. As noted by former Benaki Museum Director M. Hadjidakis, in Tsarouchis’s hands, human form takes on a monumental quality. Lightly modelled, his subjects fill the picture and are elevated to a symbolic type full of dignity and grandeur,2 capturing the genuineness of character which is the lifeblood of the Modern Greek spirit. Ever since his early childhood, Tsarouchis was enchanted by traditional local costumes from around Greece. His fascination was further heightened following his acquaintance with Angeliki Hadjimichali, Elli Papadimitriou and Eva Palmer- Sikelianou and was filtered through Kontoglou’s passion for Byzantine art. He was not only interested in the art form but also in the techniques involved. He knew how to weave, cut and sew, as well as take patterns from folk clothing.
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