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The Greek Sale New Bond Street, London | 7 April 2020 The Greek Sale New Bond Street, London | Tuesday 7 April 2020 at 2pm VIEWINGS BIDS ENQUIRIES REGISTRATION Athens +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London IMPORTANT NOTICE 36 Amalias Avenue +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Anastasia Orfanidou Please note that all customers, 10558, Athens To bid via the internet please visit +44 (0) 20 7468 8356 irrespective of any previous Thursday 26 March www.bonhams.com anastasia.orfanidou activity with Bonhams, are 11am to 8pm @bonhams.com Friday 27 March Please note that bids should be required to complete the Bidder 11am to 8pm submitted no later than 4pm on Athens Registration Form in advance of Saturday 28 March the day prior to the sale. Terpsichore Maria Angelopoulou the sale. The form can be found 11am to 6pm Lola-Theodora Stefanidou at the back of every catalogue Sunday 29 March New bidders must also provide Philippe Glyptis and on our website at www. 11am to 3pm proof of identity when submitting Timos Economopoulos bonhams.com and should be bids. Failure to do this may result +30 210 36 36 404 returned by email or post to the London in your bid not being processed. [email protected] specialist department or to the 101 New Bond Street Telephone bidding will only be [email protected] bids department at W1S 1SR, London accepted on lots with a lower 7, Neofytou Vamva Street Saturday 4 April estimate in excess of £1,000. 106 74 Athens [email protected] 11am to 3pm Sunday 5 April Live online bidding is CUSTOMER SERVICES To bid live online and / or leave 11am to 3pm available for this sale Monday to Friday internet bids please go to Monday 6 April Please email [email protected] 8.30am to 6pm www.bonhams.com/ 9am to 4.30pm with “Live bidding” in the subject +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 auctions/25975 and click on the Tuesday 7 April line 48 hours before the auction +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 Fax Register to bid link at the top left 9am to 12 pm to register for this service. of the page. Please see back of catalogue SALE NUMBER for important notice to bidders. 25975 As a courtesy to intending CATALOGUE bidders, Bonhams will provide a £20.00 written Indication of the physical condition of lots in this sale if a ILLUSTRATIONS request is received up to 24 Front cover: Lot 16 hours before the auction starts. Back cover: Lot 82 This written Indication is issued Inside front cover: Lot 6 subject to Clause 3 of the Notice Inside back cover: Lot 3 to Bidders. 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 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax All sold lots will remain in collections smaller than 70cm, there on all above charges To bid via the internet please visit in New Bond Street without charge will be a charge of £200+VAT www.bonhams.com until 5.30pm Tuesday 21 April The following symbol is used 2020. 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INCLUDE FRAMES Y These lots are subject to CITES +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7468 8356 regulations, please read the +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax Email: [email protected] Sculptures information in the back of the [email protected] For sculptures below 150cm, catalogue. there will be a charge of CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS £250+VAT. To obtain any Bonhams catalogue Please note that Bonhams will or to take out an annual For sculptures exceeding 150 cm be closed from 5.30pm Thursday subscription: there will be a charge of £300+VAT 9 April 2020 until 9am Tuesday Subscriptions Department 14 April 2020 for the Easter +44 (0) 1666 502200 Bank Holiday. +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax [email protected] Please note that Cadogan Tate will be closed from 4.30pm Thursday 9 April 2020 until 9am SHIPPING Tuesday 14 April 2020 for the For information and estimates Easter Bank Holiday. 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 Lots 1 - 122 Works from the distinguished Collection of Nia Stratos Lots 1 - 9 1 1AR 2AR THANOS TSINGOS (1914-1965) NIKOS HADJIKYRIAKOS-GHIKA (1906-1994) Green flower on white background Shutters I signed ‘Tsingos 61’ (upper left) signed ‘K.GHIKA’ (lower center) oil on canvas oil on cardboard 37.5 x 61 cm. 34 x 27 cm. Painted in 1961. Painted c. 1927. £5,000 - 7,000 £8,000 - 12,000 €5,900 - 8,200 €9,400 - 14,000 Provenance G. Isaias collection, Athens. Nia Stratos collection, Athens. Exhibited Athens, Stratigopoulou Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by N. Hadji-kyriakos Ghika and Michael Tombros, May 1-31, 1928, no. 15 (listed in the exhibition catalogue, p. 4). Athens, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Ghika, May 1973 (not included in the exhibition catalogue). Athens, To Trito Mati Gallery, Nikos Hadjikyriakos Ghika, 1st Retrospective Exhibition 1921-1934, May 11 - July 3, 1977. 6 | BONHAMS 2 Literature Cahiers d’Art, Paris, no. 6, 1927, p. 217 (illustrated). Ghika, who had recently given up portraiture, nude and landscape To Trito Mati Gallery Bulletin, no. 1, May 1977, p. 21, no. 49 painting to concentrate on interior and studio views in the spirit of (catalogued and illustrated). the early 20th century avant-garde, focuses here on the interplay N. Petsalis-Diomidis, N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Catalogue Raisonné of volumes and planes that look intensified by the oblique evening 1921-1940, Athens 1979, no. 52, pp. 238 (listed), 130 (catalogued light. This pronounced schematization of form accompanied by an and illustrated). overall feeling of naiveté is greatly indebted to the proto-renaissance J.P. de Rycke, N.P. Paissios, Ghika and the Avant-Garde in Interwar primitive styles he had recently discovered during his travels in Italy, Europe, Benaki Museum - N.H. Ghika Gallery, Ephesos editions, while pointing to the post-Cubist trends, which he was to become Athens 2004, pp. 48, 51 (discussed), fig. 20, p. 53 (illustrated). increasingly associated with. As noted by art critic Maurice Raynal in E. Mystakas, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika and Space in his Painting, 1927, “Ghika belongs to the group of artists who, while adhering to doctoral dissertation, Athens, 2005, p. 148 (discussed), fig. 13, p. 308 the tenets of Cubism are now attempting to expand them, without (catalogued), p. 150 (illustrated). adulterating them with sentimental or literary pretexts...From his Greek K.C. Valkana, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, His Painting Oeuvre, Benaki origins he retains a fondness for light and architecture.”1 Museum, Athens 2011, p. 53 (discussed), fig. 38, p. 51 (illustrated). 1 See J.-P. De Rycke - N. Paisios, Ghika and Avant-garde in Interwar Echoing de Chirico’s metaphysical spaces and Matisse’s Europe, Benaki Museum - N. H. Ghika Gallery, Efesos editions, Athens psychologically acute interiors, this historic 1927 Ghika shows a 2004, pp. 199, 201. window view from the artist’s family home in Athens at 25 Omirou Street, which he visited regularly while residing permanently in Paris since 1923. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GREEK SALE | 7 3AR NIKOS HADJIKYRIAKOS-GHIKA (1906-1994) “I tried to evoke the whispering of leaves, the buzz of insects, the Terrace plant movements of tree branches, the breathing of the juices, the swirling of signed and dated ‘Ghika/65’ (lower right) petals. The artist discovers pulsating rhythms derived from his intimate oil on canvas relationship with nature. He discovers them in the leaves and insects, 100 x 73 cm. in the light and the shadows cast by wind-swayed trees, in the flight of birds and the nuances of colour. In other words, I want the viewer to £50,000 - 70,000 feel the knife used to carve out nature. I want him or her to even feel €59,000 - 82,000 the music, the sounds emanating from the orchestration of different forms, different shapes, different lines and not only the orchestration Exhibited but, if possible, even the inherent scent they exude, which is the Athens, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Ghika, May most elusive sense of all.”3 “Every artist who is by nature a colorist 1973, no.