Alecos FASSIANOS (né en 1935)

Alecos FASSIANOS (born 1935) Woman/Gold. Oil on canvas, signed upper left and dated "1976" upper right. 99 x 79 cm. Slight scratches. In the 1960s, Alecos Fassianos studied Fine Arts in Athens and Paris before turning to his own unprecedented pictorial research and fixing his very personal style. Fassianos likes to treat contemporary subjects in the manner of mythological ones, creating figures with large and massive forms, in the manner of modern Greek kouroi transposed into the world of the 1970s. The use of gold and silver leaf in the work presented is also reminiscent of the preciousness of Klimt's works and Matisse's compositions of languid women. We also find the recurring motif of the geometrically patterned scarf placed around a wrist and into which the wind rushes, thus giving a breath of movement to the work. These different elements contribute to making this work, beyond its very decorative aspect, an emblematic painting of the artist's most sought-after production.