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Rallis Kopsidis was born on the Island of Limnos. In 1949 he enrolled at The School of Fine Art, Athens. However he abandoned his studies in the fourth year and continued studying under Photis Kondoglou (1953-1959), who he later collaborated with in executing church frescos. He worked on an important number of church fresco commissions

Asproftas was born in the village of Tripimeni, Ammochostos and graduated from the Ammochostos Gymnasium in 1937. His teacher was Christodoulos Kanthos, the father of Telemachos Kanthos, who recognized his talent and encouraged him to continue with his artistic endeavours. He studied medicine at the Medical School, University of Athens and later painting at the

Sikeliotis was born in Smyrna and in 1922 he moved to Athens. His early childhood memories recall the refugee camps in Kessariani, something that would greatly influence in his work, throughout his life. In 1935 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied painting under Spyros Vikatos and Constantinos Parthenis. His

Previous owner of lots 1,3,4,5Vasiliki (Eva) Topping was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia on the 23rd of August 1920. Her mother Catherine Poulizo Catafygiotu was from Porti, Thessaly and her father Themistocles Kataphiotis was from Trikkala, Thessaly. Eva was the oldest of three children.Reading and appreciating music and the arts were all daily events of the

Sikeliotios has had numerous solo exhibitions.In 1960 he was nominated for the Guggenheim Prize.In 1975 The National Gallery, Athens organized a large retrospective and later, in 1983, they organised an exhibition of his works on paper. In 1976 he exhibited at Art Basel.He participated in a number of prestigious group exhibitions such as: at the

Stamos was born on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to Greek immigrant parents, his mother was from Sparta, and his father was raised in Lefkada. As a teenager, he won a scholarship to study at The American Artists School where he studied sculpture with Simon Kennedy and Joseph Konzal.In 1943, when Stamos was 21, prominent dealer

Angelos Giallina was born on the island of Corfu and was of a noble family that had close ties with the Venetian Greek minority. He studied in Naples, Venice and Rome between 1875 and 1878.In 1878 he returned and settled in Corfu. Inspired by the scenic beauty of his birth place he worked exclusively in

Kkashalos was born in Assia in 1885. As a student at the elementary school of his village he studied icon-painting under the iconographer Kyriaco Pieridi. He became a show-maker and worked until the Second World War, and then made copies of ancient finds and the creation of decorative objects made of plaster and glass. After

Akrithakis was born in Athens, 1939.As a young man he mixed in bohemian, intellectual and artistic circles, among which he met poet and philosopher, Giorgos Makris and writer, Kostas Tachtsis, who both became greatly influential for him.In 1958, he travelled to Paris on motorbike, where, like other artists, he lived an intense, disorderly life of