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Greece


1997

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Greece
1997

Cyclades

"There’s always a spot sunshine, a sliver of shade, and a fish hanging around the quay. Mild are the countries where purring cats dwell."

Abstracts

"September probably wasn’t the best time to go probing into the islanders’ souls. Spring would no doubt have been better. Before the migratory flow of summer. They seemed a little worn out, hence a visible sluggishness. I painted few portraits even though usually, I prefer people to their environment. Perhaps I found the explanation in a passage from Kavvadias’ novel The Shift where he places these words in the mouth of a Chinese character: 'How is that white people, whose effigies are engraved on old gold pieces, on vases, or sculpted in marble, don’t at all resemble the men who live in Europe today?

But if you take the oldest Chinese coin, you’ll find my faithful portrait on it.' Like this Chinese man, perhaps I didn’t find the Greeks to look much like I expected them to.

But autumn surrounds the islands with its finest background light. Here, eyes are above all drawn by the majesties of nature and captured by Cycladic architecture that, on the other hand, conforms exactly to preconceived ideas. And do you know the word for “painter” in modern Greek? Geographikos…"

Extract from Les îles grecques, 2002, Éditions Gallimard

Works

Greece 3755
Mandrakia, 1997

Greece
Pencil, watercolours and gouache on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3767
Port des Pêcheurs, 1997

Greece
Pencil and watercolours on paper
29 x 42 cm

Greece 3759
Nikos Kavvadias, 1997

Greece
Composition: silver print and gouache on paper
50 x 97 cm

Greece 3757
Milos, 1997

Greece
Watercolours and pencil on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3753
Les Hauts de Naxos, 1997

Greece
Gouache and pencil on paper
29 x 42 cm

Greece 3763
Pometanapos, 1997

Greece
Ink on paper
29 x 42 cm

Greece 3737
Café Castro, 1997

Greece
Ink and gouache on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3749
Kourtari, 1997

Greece
Gouache and pencil on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3751
Le Musicien, 1997

Greece
Pencil on paper
41 x 32 cm

Greece 3769
Santorini, 1997

Greece
Gouache on paper
32 x 41 cm

Greece 3739
Folegandros, 1997

Greece
Ink on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3741
Folegandros 2, 1997

Greece
Ink and gouache on paper
29 x 42 cm

Greece 3743
Folegandros 3, 1997

Greece
Ink and gouache on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3745
Folegandros 4, 1997

Greece
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Greece 3747
Folegandros 5, 1997

Greece
Ink on paper
42 x 66 cm

Greece 3771
Tapy, 1997

Greece
Pencil and gouache on paper
29 x 21 cm

Greece 3773
Theologos, 1997

Greece
Gouache on paper
41 x 32 cm

Greece 3765
Pope, 1997

Greece
Gouache on paper
41 x 32 cm

Greece 3761
Orage sur Paros, 1997

Greece
Gouache on paper
29 x 21 cm

Maps

Greece 3685
Map of Cyclades, 1997

Gouache on paper
41 x 32 cm

Books

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