Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika

Lot 128: NICOS HADJIKIRIAKOS-GHIKA

Name: NICOS HADJIKIRIAKOS-GHIKA
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: b9e2872ff8

Est: £50,000 GBP - £70,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 11, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
GREEK
1906-1994
NOCTURNAL HOUSES, ATHENS
signed and dated Ghika / 67 upper left; signed, dated and titled Ghika 1967 / Nocturnal Houses on the reverse; signed and inscribed GHIKA / KRIEZOTOU 3 / ATHENS on the stretcher
oil on canvas
48 by 62cm., 19 by 24½in.

Artist or Maker

Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika

Exhibited

London, Whitechapel Gallery, Ghika Paintings 1934-1968, 1968, no. 92, illustrated in the catalogue
Athens, National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Ghika, 1973, no. 137, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou & Nicos Hadjikirakos-Ghika, 'Nicos Hadjikirakos-Ghika', in Greek Painters of the 20th Century, Athens, 1975, vol. I, pp. 341 & 344; fig. 25, illustrated
Kleanthi-Christina Valkana, Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika, Paintings, Athens, 2011 [2012], p. 302, no. 381, illustrated

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by the parents of the present owner in the early 1970s

Auction Details

European Paintings

Sotheby's

June 11, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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