secondhand Oil painting by I. Sergoulopoulos used, framed, Aegina - Agios Nikolaos harbor

Used

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I. Sergoulopoulos unique oil painting in a wonderful frame!!

Beautiful authentic artwork by the artist I. Sergoulopoulos in a wonderful frame!!

One of the best works of the artist! Unique rendering!

Painter: Ioannis Sergoulopoulos

Subject: Aegina - Port of Agios Nikolaos

External Dimensions: 53x65.5 cm

Internal Dimensions: 32x44.5 cm

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity!

Giannis Sergoulopoulos (1920-2002) is a unique case of a modernist painter. A student in the workshop of Theodoros Lazaridis and later with extensive apprenticeship in Paris, his work is characterized by tensions and reversals. He begins his career adopting a post-cubist perception of the landscape in absolute relevance to the avant-garde of the time. This is a period that produced many strong works that maintain – after fifty years – their modernity and power. The internal contradictions of modernism – according to the artist – lead him, in the last period of his creation, to representation.
Thus, we can schematically trace two main periods in his work. The first can be called "cubist," which chronologically starts from the early fifties and ends in the late sixties. The second period of his creation, which marked a return to representation, begins in the seventies until the end of his life. Giannis Sergoulopoulos, whether painting representationally or not, was primarily a landscape painter. In the cubist period of his creation, the architectural arrangement of the subject, the composition, and the organization of the landscape within the pictorial space of the surface constitute the central concern.
In this period, a more free and personal emphasis on strict and austere organization prevails. Within the composition, the bright or gray-white dominates, which in many works of this period is placed at its center. Around this, the subject is analyzed, articulated through a rich scale of pure colors. The combination of diagonal curvilinear and vertical subjects, separated by black outlines, creates the autonomy of the levels while also increasing the color intensity. The organization of the whole is structured in closed units, units with relative autonomy in which the interiority is combined with the external movement and the evolution of the subject. In these works, the assimilation of the achievements of Cézanne in form, of Gauguin in color, as well as the utilization of the possibilities of fauvism, is evident. The return to representation, for the artist, indicates his determination to engage with the "Greek perception" of the landscape. The Greece of soft tones, discreet lighting, and soft tonalities is now the dominant characteristics that emerge.

The exhibition consists of small watercolors by the artist covering a period of fifty years of creation. They are presented for the first time.