Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

Hotel Syria

Details

Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)
Hotel Syria
signed 'STAMOS' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated '"HOTEL SYRIA" 1959 STAMOS' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
70 x 60 in. (177.8 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1959.

Provenance

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Turske & Turske, Zürich
Anon. sale; VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 31 May 2006, lot 593
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

K. B. Sawyer, Stamos, Paris, 1960, p. 36 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Theodoros Stamos, Paintings 1958-1960, April 1981, no. 11 (illustrated on the back cover).
Zürich, Galerie M. Knoedler, Stamos: Works from 1945-1984, June-August 1984, no. 31.

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Lot Essay

“The phantoms gliding through and under the painted surfaces belong to Stamos, and they belong to us too, if we linger and look intimately from within the layers of self-generating light” (B. Cavaliere, Theodoros Stamos, New York, 1981, n.p.)

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