Lot 40: f - GERASIMOS STERIS GREEK, 1895-1985

oil on board

114 by 114cm., 45 by 45in.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS REGINA LIPPE, FLORIDA

Alfred Lippe, New York, acquired from the artist; thence by descent to the present owner

"I am painting what I think and not what I see. I am painting what I dream and feel and not what the visual forms are. I work with an ideal, colour is only part of the painting. Great art captures its essence by eliminating all aesthetic artifices." (Gerasimos Steris, Personal Correspondence)