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Girl reading , 1929

Girl reading , 1929
Girl reading , 1929
Artist
Triantaphyllidis Theophrastos
(Smyrna 1881 - Athens 1955)
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Triantaphyllidis Theophrastos
(Smyrna 1881 - Athens 1955)

One of the founding members of the 'Techni' group of 1917, Theophrastos Triantophyllidis modestly and discreetly produced an oeuvre of quality in painting, dominated by colour and feeling. His mercurial nature and his belief that the rendering of the picture of the world is an inner, intellectual, process took him to Munich and Paris, where the post-Impressionist painters, and particularly the Nabi, were already preoccupied with the spiritual content of painting. With a deep faith in man, his values, his relationships, his emotions, he created theme series in which the human form predominates, giving a social dimension to his painting - apart from the possibilities in composition and art afforded to him by the exhaustive re-working of the same subject.

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Drawing in pencil and chalk
Dimensions
15X23
Source
Gift of Dimitrios D. Tsamis
Description
Girl Reading belongs within the subject-matter of the familiar everyday space, and perhaps is a sketch for some of his works which show human figures seated in a horizontal arrangement around a table. It bears the date 1929, a time at which the artist made a distinct turn away from landscape to anthropocentric painting, a trend which was to dominate for the next decade in the work of most Greek painters.