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Houses of Athens II
Woman in the sun
Poros' landscape
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1921-1925
The phase of the very youthful experiments, influenced by his occasional teachers (Parthenis, Bissiere) and his research on the great painters' styles (Velasquez, Tiziano and particularly Theotokopoulos).
Representative pieces: "Still Life", 1924 (D. Pikionis), "Teriade Portrait" and "Nude Model", String of Beads" 1924-25, (destroyed, but pictures are published in the complete "Catalogue of Painting Works" compiled by N. Petsalis Diomidis with the assistance of the painter himself, Athens 1979).
1926-1931
The phase where the quest theme appears, which is going to mark all of his work: the study of light and its hatching on surfaces or large areas. In this phase, the painter goes along in quite bold abstractions, without reaching abstraction though.
Representative pieces: "Internal with Easel I-IV", 1926-27, Bernheim, Raynal, Rosemberg, Bosuet (Paris), Pariser (Zurich), "Window I-III", 1927-28 (lost, Paris), "Houses of Athens in the Dusk",1927-28 (National Picture Gallery), "Houses of Omirou Street", 1928 (N. Petsalis-Diomidis), "Quarters I-IV", 1929 (one existing in the Athens National Gallery), "Woman Lying in the Sun", and "Revelry by the Waterside I-II", 1931 (N. Petsalis-Diomidis and National Gallery).
1932-1937
The periof of research on composition questions, harmonization of lines with curves and adoption of the post-cubistic idiom on the Greek landscape.
Representative pieces: "Composition on Red Background", 1934 (Christian Zervos, Paris), "Landscape of Poros", 1934 (H. Ath. Gertsou), "Composition with Greek Objects", 1934 (Public Picture Gallery of Rhodes), "Composition with Rhythmic Objects", 1935 and "Two Figures", 1936 (Benaki Museum). |
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