THEODOROS STAMOS | DELPHIC SUN BOX

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 1978

“Stamos… is too enchanted with myth and enigma ever to assume an ecclesiastical role. His intuitions and sensibilities more closely resemble those of a poet than of a priest - just as his images more closely parallel the riddles of the Sphinx than the pronouncements of a prophet.”

(Theodore F. Wolff, “Works from 1970 until today: The Recent Works,” Theodoros Stamos: Works from 1945 to 1984, Zurich 1984 p. 188)

“At the moment, I am concerned with an image that will expand and excite the eye, even secure it. I want the painting to be sensuous, living on its own, devoid of any biography and, if vulgar, all right...This is not to say I am off the nature 'kick'; instead, through nature, this is my discovery: happiness, even joy, at finding something, which I want to look at...So, it is the eye and the paint—paint on canvas—with which I am involved, allowing the paint to have a chance and achieving a harmony between the two."

Theodoros Stamos