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GALANIS, DEMETRIOS [and] MARTIAL DE BRIVES. "Les louanges et les benedictions". |
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| Start date: 27/09/2011 09:00 |
| End date: 07/10/2011 16:30 |
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| GALANIS, DEMETRIOS [and] MARTIAL DE BRIVES. "Les louanges et les benedictions". |
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Genre: ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF ENGRAVING
Marseilles: Robert Laffont, 1943.
folio (317 x 245 mm). XLVIII pages.
Limited edition and numbered 1 - 350. "Praises and Benedictions" from texts by the monk Martial de Brives, of the 1660 edition. 60 bi-coloured woodcut drop caps, 8 full page woodcuts, and various drawings by Demetrios Galanis. Protective rice papers. Bi-coloured rext red - black. Luxury edition. Bookbinding: unseamed issues with wrapper and case.
X-libris.
French language.
[Bibliography: Mavrommatis page 511, Dictionary of Greek Artists volume 1 page 237, B.N.F. 31711664].
[Galanis, Demetrios (1879 - 1966): Greek painter, engraver, sketch
artist with an international career. Athens Polytechnic University
graduate. Studied drawing with
Greek painter Nikiphoros Lytras, studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de
Paris with teachers like F.
Cormon and B. Constant. He published his drawings at the Soleil de
Dimanche,
Frou-Frou, Le Rire, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Canard
Souvage, and others. In 1909 he settled at Monmarte and socialized with
J. Gris, A.
Matisse, P. Picasso, G. Braque, A. Derain.
Demetrios Galanis has had many solo exhibitions in Paris, London,
New York, Alexandria, Cairo, Lausanne, Biennale of Venice, Thessaloniki,
Athens. He has won many distinctions and awards. His works are located
in Greece and abroad in many museums, galleries, banks and private
collections. He has been a member of the Academy of Athens since 1950].
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