Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) Maison traditionelle... Lot 24

Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) Maison traditionelle à Kastoria (The Picheon residence) signé en grec et daté ‘48-63' (en bas à droite) tempera sur papier 35 x 28cm (13 3/4 x 11in). Peint en 1948-63. signed in Greek and dated (lower right) tempera on paper £5100-6800 Littérature Nikos Engonopoulos, Retrospective exhibition catalogue, National Gallery/Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens 1983, p. 31 (illustrated). Ta Nea newspaper, April 24, 1973 (illustrated). Ktimatiki Bank magazine, no. 95, 1975 (illustrated on the cover). M. Tsikouta, Les Influences dans la Peinture Grecque après 1945, doctoral dissertation, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 1991, illustrations vol. III, fig. 653 (illustrated). N. Engonopoulos, Hellenic Houses, NTUA Press, Athens 1996, p. 37 (illustrated). K. Perpinioti-Agazir, Nikos Engonopoulos, Son Univers Pictural, exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonée, Benaki Museum, Athens2007, no. 826, p. 339 (illustrated), p. 487 (catalogued and illustrated). “Engonopoulos's houses are ‘psychographs' of buildings.” Dimitris Pikionis In 1972, the Technical University of Athens published a collection of 18 of Engonopoulos's Greek Houses series. These works were faithful representations and, at the same time, personal interpretations of reality, truthfully reflecting Engonopoulos's inner beauty and graciousness.1 1 See Lexi magazine, no.77, September 1988, p. 654