Michael Lekakis (18 results)

Parnassos, Greek Cultural Society of New York, Near Fine, 104 pages, LITERATURE [file poe] [dp 0206]; H0502 Y1Y.

Softcover, 96 pages, very good condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. (Blank white spine).

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Camillos Kouros Gallery, New York, Published 1984. Wraps, 20 pp.; 27 cm; staple bound; illustrated with twelve black-and-white plates of Lekakis wood sculptures with titles, dates, materials, and heights. In Very Good condition. Cream paper wraps with the artist's Greek monogram printed at center of front cover. Light bumping to edges and corners and mild shelf wear; faint surface soiling and scattered light foxing visible on both covers. Staple binding tight. Interior pages unmarked.Exhibition catalog for the Michael Lekakis retrospective held at Camillos Kouros Gallery, 831 Madison Avenue, New York, in December 1984. The exhibition was presented under the auspices of the Greek Consulate General in New York as part of the "Contributors to American Culture" series, with an introduction by Consul General Nicolas A. Capellaris framing the project as institutional recognition of modern Greek artists' place in American culture. The biographical essay is by Dore Ashton (reprinted from Arts Magazine), the American art critic and Cooper Union professor best known for her biographies of Philip Guston and Mark Rothko. Ashton positions Lekakis as a serious modern carver of wood drawing together Klee's cosmic principle, Plato's metaphysics, Hölderlin's romance with ancient Greece, and the artist's own statements about reconciling man and the cosmos through eros and agape. The text records Lekakis's personal connections with Ezra Pound, whose Homeric obsession Lekakis cherished, and with e.e. cummings, who called him "a singularly honest Greek sculptor."Twelve plates document major Lekakis sculptures in oak, elm, walnut, mahogany, rosewood, and pearwood, including Astrape (1953-65, 93 inches), Keravnos (1948, 49 inches), Trocheion (1955-59, 66 inches), Apotheosis No. 1 (1962-67, 45 1/2 inches), Trimanton (1973-83, 76 inches), Rhythmisis (1951-66, 63 1/2 inches), Trisipostaton (1947-65, 76 inches), and Thunderbird (1946-55, 56 inches). The catalog closes with lists of selected exhibitions (including a Whitney solo show in 1973-74 and group inclusion in MoMA's Americans 1963) and selected public collections (MoMA, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Whitney, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Tel-Aviv Museum, and the National Pinacotheque of Athens, among others).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Poems in both Greek in English by the abstract artist and sculptor who was born and lived all his life in NYC. Name signed in Greek alphabet.

Paperback. White wraps with black lettering; 32 unnumbered pp.; richly illustrated in bw. This catalog was created on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kouros Gallery, October 1983. G+ (Wraps show age-toning and shelf/edgewear; pages are lightly age-toned, but clean; binding is solid.).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Camillos Kouros Gallery, March 1987. 95 pages, well illustrated in black & white throughout. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Translated Into English by the Author. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Text in English and Greek. Modest soiling, near fine. Signed by the author with some correction in his hand to the text.

Condition: Used: Very Good. Glossy softcover exhibition catalogue. A few very light spots to rear cover; otherwise Fine, with no writing in book.

LEKAKIS, Michael. EROS PSYCHE. Translated Into English By The Author. Athens: [No publisher], 1973. 8vo., printed wraps. First Edition. Text in English & Greek. Signed presentation from Lekakis ("For Helen Simpson") on a front blank page, with the author's name signed in Greek. Very Good (some soil to white covers, many pages unopened). $50.00.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to in stiff card covers, 112pp, plates etc . [CONDITION: VERY GOOD (covers a little tanned and very faintly soiled, otherwise a well preserved clean and tight copy) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Condition: Good. Fo. [circa 45 pp]. Color plates. Small book in manila folder with printed loose pages. Soft cover. Very Good. Provenance: UC Berkeley Art Professor Peter Selz.

Condition: Good. 4to. 95 pp. Black and white plates. Soft cover. Very Good. Provenance: UC Berkeley Art Professor Peter Selz.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 4 pp. Bifold brochure. Good. Slight bend on bottom right edge. Color plates. From the collection of Peter Selz, Art History Professor at UC Berkeley.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 6 pp. Trifold brochure. Very Good. Color plates. From the collection of Peter Selz, Art History Professor at UC Berkeley.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition, with creaseless covers and spine, faint mar on back cover, small bump to upper fore edge corner at back cover; otherwise Fine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Profiles from the above authors, artists, with b&w photos of the artists and their work. 112 pages. Keywords: Photos, Art, Sculpture, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Chryssa, Sally Drummond, Edward Higgins, Robert Indiana, Gabriel Kohn, Michael Lekakis, Richard Lindner, Profiles.

LEKAKIS, Michael. EROS PSYCHE. Text in Greek and English. Athens, 1973. 8vo., white printed wraps. First Edition. Signed presentation from Lekakis on the front endpaper: "Michael Lekakis [in Greek], For Jules." Very Good (moderate soil covers). $50.00.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to in stiff card covers, 112pp, plates etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition (page-block edges slightly tanned) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Condition: Good. 4to. 20 pp. Very Good. Black and white plates. From the collection of Peter Selz, Art History Professor at UC Berkeley.