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Lot 9
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Yiannis Tsarouchis

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Yiannis Tsarouchis
  • Young man with helmet (Portrait of Alain)
  • signed and dated 1975 lower right

  • oil on paper laid on board

  • 49.5 by 44cm., 19½ by 17¼in.

Provenance

Purchased in Paris in 1975

Catalogue Note

In this intimate portrait, Tsarouchis captures the uncertainty of youth, his sitter engaging directly with the viewer while his timid gaze belies his muscular physique.

Tsarouchis' initial training was at the School of Fine Arts in Athens under Jakobides and Parthenis, while also working in the studio of Fotis Kontoglou, a religious painter who exposed him to Byzantine art. In 1935 Tsarouchis left Athens for Paris. It was in the French capital that he was able to study the work of the Renaissance masters and French Impressionists. Immersing himself in the Parisian avant-garde, he befriended painters such as Matisse and Giacometti. After another sojourn in his home country, Tsarouchis returned to France in 1967 due to burgeoning political developments.

This work is listed as no. 1166 in the archives of the Tsarouchis Foundation.