Thanos Tsingos

Biography Selected works

Biography

Tsingos Thanos (1914 - 1965) – an artist who left his indelible mark in the postwar Greek art scene, anti-conformist lifestyle, and constant re-invention of ideas and forms. He was born in 1914 in Elefsina, studied architecture at the university in Athens (1931-1936) and then worked as an architect until the end of the Thirties. In 1947 he went to Brazil, and on the recommendation of Le Corbusier, worked on the studies and designs for Brasilia. The same year he travelled to Paris where he settled until 1960. He abandoned architecture and devoted himself to painting and set design, indeed, even founding his own theater. He had solo exhibitions in France and in 1963 his last solo show at the Zygos gallery in Athens to which he had returned in 1961. Retrospective exhibitions of his work were organized at the Technological Institute of Athens (1965), the National Gallery (1980) and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1980). One of the first artists internationally to express themselves in informel art, he created works feverish in style, the fruit of frenzied delirium, in which gesture and metier activate the painting surface.

Selected works

THANOS TSINGOS (1914-1965) - RED ROCKS BETWEEN SKY AND SEA

TITLE: RED ROCKS BETWEEN SKY AND SEA
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
DIMENSIONS: 60χ73 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED AND DATED (1950) BELOW AND ON THE BACK
(The artwork is in the catalogue raisonné by Marc Ottavi)

THANOS TSINGOS - FLOWERS (1914-1965)

FLOWERS
OIL ON WOOD
29Χ22 CM.
SIGNED ON THE UPPER SIDE
(THIS ARTWORK IS INCLUDED IN THE CATALOGUE RAISONNE MARC OTTAVI)



ΛΟΥΛΟΥΔΙΑ

ΛΟΥΛΟΥΔΙΑ
ΕΛΑΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΣΕ ΜΟΥΣΑΜΑ
27χ46 ΕΚ.
ΥΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟ ΚΑΙ ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΗΜΕΝΟ (1959) ΣΤΗΝ ΠΙΣΩ ΟΨΗ.
ΤΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΟΝ CATALOGUE RAISONNE MARC OTTAVI

ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗ ΜΕ ΛΟΥΛΟΥΔΙΑ

ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗ ΜΕ ΛΟΥΛΟΥΔΙΑ
ΕΛΑΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΣΕ ΚΑΜΒΑ
72Χ93 ΕΚ
ΥΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟ ΚΑΙ ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΗΜΕΝΟ (1959) ΚΑΤΩ ΔΕΞΙΑ
(ΤΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΠΕΡΙΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΤΑΙ ΣΤON CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ MARC OTTAVI)