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Lot 18: Constantin PARTHÉNIS (1878-1967) , The glorification of Beauty [1940s]

Est: €300,000 EUR - €400,000 EURSold:
Vergos Auctions P.C.Athens, GreeceJanuary 27, 2021

Item Overview

Description

signed by N. Parthenis on verso As years went by, Parthenis’ allegoric compositions became increasingly more difficult to apprehend. In this work, he re-approaches a subject that was included in his proposal (1940) for the decoration of one of the rooms of Athens Town Hall (cf. Σχέδια του Κωνσταντίνου Παρθένη στην Εθνική Πινακοθήκη, Athens 1989, number 111). This composition has the same monumental dimensions of the work proposed for the Town Hall (cf. ibid. numbers 101 & 102), this time however it is divided in three zones. In the lower and wider one, Beauty is portrayed as a half-naked young woman holding a flower and sitting on a throne defined by architectural members of the Antiquity. In the upper zone, three figures are portrayed. The middle one showers Beauty with flowers and the other two hold fruits and straws which are symbols of affluence. In the middle zone, a seeder faces an ambiguous -tilted and partly squared- rectangle on which a star inscribed in an emerging circle is projected; probably a hint to the geometry of the universe reigned by absolute beauty.

Dimensions

322 x 160 cm

Artist or Maker

Medium

oil on canvas

Condition Report

Condition report available upon request

Provenance

Purchased by the artist's son Nikos Parthenis (1970).

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Auction Details

Greek Art and Sculptures - Historic and Philhellenic Items

by
Vergos Auctions P.C.
January 27, 2021, 06:30 PM EET

10 Neophytou Douka St., Athens, VAT: EL801125773, 106 74, GR

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Buyer's Premium

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€300€329€30
€330€349€20
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€200,000€299,999€20,000
€300,000+€30,000

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