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GALANIS, DEMETRIOS [and] BEUCLER, ANDRE. "Portrait de D. Galanis". |
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Start date: 26/09/2011 09:00 |
End date: 06/10/2011 20:30 |
Estimation: 400-600€ |
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GALANIS, DEMETRIOS [and] BEUCLER, ANDRE. "Portrait de D. Galanis". |
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Genre: ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF ENGRAVING
Manuel Bruker, [1954].
foliο (326 x 255 mm). 30 pages [not numbered].
Limited and numbered edition 1 - 250. 14 woodcuts and copper-plate engravings (frontispiece, 5 full page, 3 two-page, and 5 within text). At the beginning there is a portrait of Demetrios Galanis by Henri Matisse. At the end in center spread "The garden of Kerameikos", etching. Luxury edition. Bookbinding: unseamed bi-fold sheets printed on watermarked "Arches" paper. Soft covers, illustrated with copper-plate engravings.
French language.
[Bibliography: Mavrommatis page 209, 242, 272, 287, Athanasopoulos 30, 31, Dictionary of Greek Artists volume 1 page 237].
[Galanis, Demetrios (1879 - 1966): Greek painter, engraver, sketch
artist with an international career. Athens Polytechnic University
graduate. Studied drawing with
Greek painter Nikiphoros Lytras, studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de
Paris with teachers like F.
Cormon and B. Constant. He published his drawings at the Soleil de
Dimanche,
Frou-Frou, Le Rire, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Canard
Souvage, and others. In 1909 he settled at Monmarte and socialized with
J. Gris, A.
Matisse, P. Picasso, G. Braque, A. Derain.
Demetrios Galanis has had many solo exhibitions in Paris, London,
New York, Alexandria, Cairo, Lausanne, Biennale of Venice, Thessaloniki,
Athens. He has won many distinctions and awards. His works are located
in Greece and abroad in many museums, galleries, banks and private
collections. He has been a member of the Academy of Athens since 1950].
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