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“Young Man” – Yannis Tsarouhis

Collector’s lithograph, signed and numbered by Yiannis Tsarouhis .

“Young Man” – Yannis Tsarouchis | Comes with a certificate of authenticity.

• Subject dimensions: 27.5 x 49.5 cm.
• Paper dimensions: 41 x 62 cm.

Yiannis Tsarouchis was born in Piraeus in 1910, being the second son of Athanasiou Tsarouchis, a merchant from Arcadia, and Maria Monarchidis, originally from Psara. The neoclassical building in which it first saw the light, at the junction of Vasileos Georgiou Avenue and Louka Ralli Street, no longer exists. He spent part of his childhood (1920-1925) in the mansion of the Metaxas family, near his aunt Despina Metaxas, who was his mother’s sister. Although the Tsarouhis family moved to Athens in 1927, Piraeus took deep root in the artist, both for the metropolitan environment in which he grew up and influenced him artistically, and for the poor working-class neighborhoods where he often made escapades during his childhood. In 1938, two years after his return to Greece, he held his first solo exhibition at the Alexopoulos store on Nikis Street in Athens with works that presented a special personality that were praised by the then techno critics Papantoniou and Kapetanakis.

In 1940 he enlisted and served in the Engineers. During the years of the Occupation, he founded a private painting school, where several young people studied for a short time, who later became apprentice painters, such as Kosmas Xenakis , Minos Argyrakis , Nikos Georgiadis , and also Rozita Sokou .. In 1947 he held 2 solo exhibitions with watercolors and theatrical drafts. In 1950 he went to Paris again where a year later, in 1951, he exhibited in Paris and in London at the “Retfri Gallery”, while in 1953 he signed a contract with the Iolas gallery in New York. In 1956 he was nominated for the Guggenheim Prize and in 1958 he took part in the Venice Biennale. In 1967 he settled in Paris. In 1982, the Yannis Tsarouchis Museum was inaugurated in Marousi, in the artist’s house, which he himself turned into a museum by donating his personal collection of his works. At the same time, the Tsarouchi Foundation operates with the aim of disseminating the painter’s work.

Along with painting, Yiannis Tsarouchis was also involved in theater directing and in fact from 1928. He designed sets and costumes for the theaters “Ethniko” (“Royal”), “Kotopoulis”, “Dimotiko” in Piraeus and others. especially prose, as well as for the classic play “Romeo and Juliet” which was staged in 1954 in the then Royal Garden.

• Lithography is a printing technique which was invented around 1798 by A. Alois Senefelder, based on the fact that water and fats are never mixed. The theme or representation is drawn with greasy chalk on a stone (porous limestone) or tin plate and then dried. When water runs on the designed surfaces, the greasy ink “catches” only in the places that are engraved and not in the wet stone.

At eartshop you will find a fine selection of collectible silkscreens and lithographs by great Greek painters, such as Alekos Fasianos, Dimitris Mytaras, Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Vassilis Sperantzas,Angelos Panagiotou and others.

The lithographs are accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and are in excellent condition. We can also frame them with a frame of your choice as our store has over 1500 frame codes.

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The product is handmade and there may be deviations in design and color from the picture.