Lot 43: f - GERASIMOS STERIS GREEK, 1895-1985

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
signed Deste l.l.

61 by 92 cm., 24 by 36 1/4 in.

oil on canvas

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. REGINA LIPPE, FLORIDA

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

"The true artist passes through this faintly lighted senseless life and what they touch is illuminated and lives: space, time, light and life. They make a pact with the spirits of the air of light, of infinite metamorphosis. The perpetual feast transports the plastic image into the sphere of magical music and wonder. The true artist has a magnificent enthusiasm, he flies through the dominion of the world of his mind. There one finds the spirit of things which fill his mind with substance of forms and changes. He invents spiritual and metaphysical forms grasping the sould and substance of beauty and life." (Gerasimos Steris, Personal Correspondence).