CONSTANTIN ANDREOU (1917-2007)

Open column 1970 In welded brass on a wooden base H. 190 cm W. 35 cm D. 30 cm Provenance: > Estate of the artist, Athens Bibliography: > Andréou, 40 years of sculpture, Editions Jauffray, Chennevière-sur-Marne, 1975, reproduced on p. 169 > Catalog of the exhibition "Retrospective Kostas Andreou", Municipal Gallery of Athens, 1998, reproduced p. 37 > Andreou, sculpture, bas-reliefs in color, Bastas editions, 1999, reproduced p. 114 and 184-185 Exhibitions : > Constantin Andreou et Raymond Guerrier, Orangerie du Château de Meudon, from November 1st to 19th 1995 > Retrospective Kostas Andreou, Municipal Gallery of Athens, 1998 "Andreou reaches the paradox that the more monumental his works become, the more tenuous their material becomes: the brass wire replaces the sheet, the line replaces the surface, and the sculpture invades the entire space. (...) Andréou had to go through all the stages of a thousand years of knowledge to join his time, and surpass it." Geneviève Testanière, Curator of the Museums of Le Havre in the exhibition catalog dedicated to the artist in October-November 1971