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Polykleitos Rengos - Aghios Nicolaos, Kassandra, Halkidiki
Polykleitos Rengos - Aghios Nicolaos, Kassandra, Halkidiki The handwritten description by Polykleitos Rengos as shown on the reverse
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Polykleitos RENGOS
Greek, 1903-1984

Aghios Nicolaos, Kassandra, Halkidiki
watercolour and ink on paper

signed and dated 1958 lower right
dedicated in pencil lower left: To Mr. & Mrs. Royal Bisbee
(Mr. Royal Bisbee was the Public Affairs Officer (1956-1958) at the USA consulate Thessaloniki, Greece)
53 x 36 cm

NOTE
On the reverse there is a handwritten description by Polykleitos Rengos providing the title of the work as well as his address in Salonica.


Provenance

private collection, Greece




sold for 971.36 €

Polykleitos Rengos was born on the island of Naxos in 1903. In 1913 he moved to Thessaloniki with his family.
Rengos enrolled at The School of Fine Arts of Athens in 1920, where he studied painting under Spyros Vikatos, Dimitrios Geraniotis, Georgios Jakobides, Georgios Roilos and Nikolaos Lytras.

In 1926 he visited Mount Athos for the first time. The landscape and art of Athos would influence his later work.

In 1930 he married painter Georgia Mandopoulou and the same year they moved to Paris where they lived until 1935. There Polykleitos Rengos attended painting classes at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Colarossi. He also studied wood engraving with Demetrios Galanis.

In 1933 he revisited Mount Athos and in 1934 in Paris he published: "Mont Athos, Gravures sur bois", with wood engravings and a preface by C. Diehl.

After Paris he returned to Greece and settled in Thessaloniki with his family. He painted many subject matters and experimented with many techniques, merging different styles and traditions, as a result he is considered to be the most representative artist of the so-called "Thessaloniki School". Among his most famous paintings are Lavra Monastery (1935-40), Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1940-44), Greco’s House at Toledo (1951-60), and Grigoriou Monastery on Athos (1971-80).

Polykleitos Rengos exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Greece and abroad.

His work can be found in numerous public and private collections.

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