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signé en grec (en bas à gauche)
huile sur toile
96 x 78cm (37 13/16 x 30 11/16in).
Peint vers 1948
signed in Greek (lower left)
oil on canvas
Footnotes
Exposé
Athens, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Orestis Kanellis, 1900-1978, retrospective exhibition, September 11 - October 29, 1978, no. 35 (listed in the exhibition catalogue, p. 14).
Athens, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, The Child in Greek Art, 19th - 20th Century, December 15, 1993 – February 13, 1994, no. 85 (discussed and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pp. 190-191).
Littérature
Spiteris T., Three Centuries of Modern Greek Art 1660-1967, vol. 2, Papyros editions, Athens 1979, 240e (illustrated).
The Child in Greek Art, 19th - 20th Century, 1994 desk diary, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Adam editions, Athens 1993 (illustrated).
Lexi magazine, no. 118, November-December 1993, p. 796 (illustrated).
E. Plessa, ed., The Work and Wonderful Days of Philippos Koutsinas, Athens 2013, pp. 10, 101 (illustrated).
Kallergis, H., Approaches to Children's Literature, Kastaniotis editions, Athens 1995 (cover illustration).
"In this painting, Kanellis transports us to a pure, paradisiac world beyond concrete time and space, a world that evokes the mood and atmosphere of Paul Gaugin and the Fauves. The dominant presence of nature connects the image of the child to the primitive and elemental, a recurrent theme in both European and Greek art."1
1 A. Kouria in The Child in Greek Art, 19th - 20th Century, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens 1994, p. 190.