Drawing
Pencil on paper
Signed
DESIGNER Alekos Fassianos (1935-2022)
COUNTRY Greece
DATE 1975
DIMENSIONS H. 27,5 x W. 21 /cm. (without frame)
H. 42 x W. 35 /cm. (with frame)
SPECIAL NOTE
Alekos Fassianos was born in Athens. His father was a musician and his mother taught ancient Greek. He studied violin at the National Conservatory and painting under Yannis Moralis at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. In 1960, he received a scholarship from the French government and went to Paris to study lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Aside from painting, Fassianos was a writer, a poet, a ceramist, a scenographer and an architect. Alekos Fassianos has been awarded Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Légion d’Honneur and in 2021, he became Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Légion d’Honneur.
