Lot 15
  • 15

Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika
  • Odysseus and Nausicaa (Pink Frieze)
  • signed and dated 49 lower right
  • oil on panel
  • 58 by 81cm., 22¾ by 32in.

Provenance

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Exhibited

Athens, Zappeion, Armos Group Exhibition, 1952

Literature

Ioanna Kritseli-Providi, Ancient Greece as seen by N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Thessaloniki, 1995, fig. 5, illustrated
Epta Imeres Kathimerini, Painters of the 30's Generation: Moralis, Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Diamandopoulos, Tsarouchis), Athens, 1996, p. 52, illustrated

Condition

Apart from hairline surface cracks to the panel and some scattered light surface dirt (both visible in the catalogue illustration), and some minor spots and strokes of retouching visible under ultraviolet light (notably in the white pigments around the edges), the work is in good condition.
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