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Lacewing Fine Art
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Medium
Pencil
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
signed, dated & dedicated 'Pour Odette'
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Dimensions
26.00cm wide
20.00cm high
(10.24 inches wide 7.87 inches high)
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Literature:
Bibl Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs by E. Benezit
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Description / Expertise
MARIO PRASSINOS (1916-1985)
'Nu allonge a la cigarette', 1954
Pencil - signed, dated & dedicated 'Pour Odette'
20,5 x 26,5 cm.
Although Mario Prassinos was born in Istanbul, to Greek parents, he painted most of his life in France and became a naturalized citizen of France in 1949
1916 Born July 30th in Constantinople of Greek-Italian descent.
1922 The Prassinos family flees from Turkey to settle in France, in Nanterre near Paris. Lyc?e, Facult? de Lettres, ?cole des Langues Orientales. In between the age of 18 and 23, Prassinos is involved in the surrealist experience together with his sister Gis?le Prassinos.
1927 Death of his mother, Victorine Prassinos.
1936 Death of his father, Lysandre Prassinos, who until 1922 was a French teacher and the publisher of the magazine Logos in Constantinople. The family moves to Paris.
1938 Death of his grandfather, Pr?textat Leconte, later to become the subject of a series of paintings LES PR?TEXTATS. First solo exhibition at the galerie Billiet-Vorms in Paris with a foreword by Ren? Char. Portraits of cats, warriors and women.
1939 Mario Prassinos volunteers for the war against the Nazis..
1942 to1950 Meets Raymond Queneau, Albert Camus. Joins the ?ditions Gallimard, does etchings to illustrate texts by Queneau, Sartre, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Poe?
1947 First scenography for stage director Jean Vilar at the T.N.P. National People's Theatre and at the Festival d'Avignon.
1948 First exhibition at the Galerie Billiet-Caputo, later to become the Galerie de France.
1949 Series of paintings TROUPEAUX (Herds). Acquires French nationality.
1951 Purchase of a house in Eygali?res (Provence). Beginning of the ALPILLES series.
1951-1975 Production of more than 150 tapestry cartoons woven at Aubusson, les Gobelins & Beauvais Manufactures and exhibited at the Galerie La Demeure, Paris from 1956 to 1974.
1953 Wood engravings and copper etchings for The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
1953 - 1976 Frequent exhibitions at Galerie de France in Paris.
1957 - 1960 BOUQUETS & LES CYPR?S series, oil on canvas
1958 Extended stay in Greece in the island of Spetses. Indian ink and oil painting on paper: les CYPR?S DE SPETSAI.
1959 The ARBRES series, among which Meltem. PAYSAGES (Landscapes) series.
1960 Set and costumes for Strindberg's Erik XIV, then, in 1963 for Verdi's Macbetto staged at the Scala de Milano.
1962 - 1975 Portrait work: 1962-1964, of BESSIE SMITH
1963 - 1970, portraits of his grandfather PR?TEXTAT
1969 - 1975, portraits of his father: P?RETEXTAT
1974 - 1975, les SUAIRES (the Shrouds)..
1969 Scenography for ballet Eonta with music by Iannis Xenakis.
1970 - 1980 Work on the PAYSAGES TURCS series.
1973 Publication of first book Les Pr?textats, published by Gallimard, Paris.
1976 Extended stay at Mycenae in Greece where he starts writing his second book La Colline Tatou?e (The Tattooed Hill). The book is published by Grasset in Paris in 1983.
1977 Set and costumes for Cripure by Louis Guilloux, staged by Marcel Mar?chal in Marseille and Paris.
1979 Large exhibition at the French Institute in Athens.
1980 Exhibition of the series PAYSAGES TURCS at the Grand Palais in Paris.
1980 -1984 Several hundred oil paintings on paper developing the theme of the tree (LES ARBRES.
1981 Set and costumes for Verdi's Otello staged at the opera houses of Marseille and Avignon.
1983 Retrospective exhibition in Aix en Provence.
1984 Exhibition at the French Institute in Athens, in Rhodes and Thessalonica (Greece).
1985 Mario Prassinos paints the PEINTURES DU SUPPLICE (of the suffering) for a roman chapel in Saint R?my de Provence.
He donates a comprehensive selection of his work to the French State: more than a hundred paintings, drawings, engravings, tapestries and prints. This collection, property of the French National Contemporary Art Fund is exhibited in the Notre Dame de Piti? chapel in Saint R?my de Provence.
Mario Prassinos dies on October 23, 1985.
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SOLD
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