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"The Magician", 1980
By Alecos Fassianos (1935)
Oil on canvas, 70Χ115 cm.
Inv. No.: P-14
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ALECOS FASSIANOS (1935)
Born in Athens, Alecos Fassianos studied
at the School of Fine Arts (1953-1960) with Yannis Moralis. With a scholarship by the French government he later
moved to Paris where he studied lithography by Pierre-Eugène Clairin and
Georges Dayez at the École Nationale des
Beaux Arts (1960-1963). He had his first one-man exhibition in Athens (1957). Many other solo
and group shows followed both in Athens and abroad.
He has also designed stage scenery and illustrated art books of renown
Greek and foreign poets and has designed Greek stamps among which one
of the issues for the Olympic Games in Athens (2004). His
work finds itself between expressionism and surrealism with an
intense naive and Greek character. He lives and works in Athens
and Paris.
P.D.Cangelaris,
Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris
Collection, vol.1,
Athens 1991
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