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Yiannis MORALIS pencil study
Study of a male nude
Signed and dated 36 lower right45 x 26 cm
Provenance
given by the artist to Vassilis Fotopoulosprivate collection, Athens
Literature
Yiannis Moralis, edited by Vassilis Fotopoulos, Commercial Bank of Greece Group Of Companies, Athens 1988, p. 338, no 428, illustrated
Exhibited
Estimate
5 500 / 7 000 €
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Notes
Yiannis Moralis was born in Arta in 1916, his family moved to Athens in 1927.In 1931 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied painting under Constantinos Parthenis and Umbertos Argyros. On graduating in 1936 he received a grant to study in Rome for a year. He later moved to Paris and attended painting and fresco classes at the ?cole des Beaux Arts and also mosaic classes at the ?cole des Arts et M?tiers.In 1939, at the start of the Second World War, Moralis returned to Greece and joined the army forces.He first participated in an exhibition in 1940. Numerous other exhibitions followed both nationally and internationally.In 1947 he began teaching at The School of Fine Arts, Athens until his retirement in 1983.In 1949 he formed ?Armos?, a group with other artists including: Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Yannis Tsarouchis, Nikos Nikolaou, Nikos Engonopoulos and Panayiotis Tetsis. ?Armos? held its first exhibition in 1950 in Zappeion, Athens.From the 1950s onwards, he moved into a geometric style incorporating curved form, moving on from the realistic figurative depictions of his early work.