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Yiannis Tsarouchis, (1910 – 1989)

Autumn, 1976

Tsarouchis is one of the greatest Greek artists of the 20th century, often referred as the painter of ‘Greek people’, in part as he drew much inspiration from the working class youth of Athens and the Greek sailors and soldiers he met while he was serving in the Greco Italian War in the early 1940′s.  When the military took over in Greece in 1967, Tsarouchis, forced into political exile, settled in France.  It was there that he met Dominique, one of his favorite models, who is portrayed in many of his masterpieces of the 1970s including ‘Autumn’.  This picture shows how skilfully Tsarouchis applied his familiarity with the themes and techniques of the Western tradition of painting – you can see, for example, clear echoes of Caravaggio, Botticelli and even Velasquez, blended with his own very Greek sensibility.

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Courtesy of Bonham’s