Oddyseas Elytis (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: FINE. First Edition. SIGNED by Tsarouchis in pencil on the limitation page, number 182 or an edition limited to 200. WITH a subsequent inscription by Tsarouchis in purple pen to his friend, the photographer and fine-press publisher, Stathis Orphanos, with an original line drawing. 4 Folio signatures looseleaf printing the introduction by the Nobel-prize wining poet, Oddyseas Elytis, along with contents and colophon. Followed by one signed and numbered 'Prototype' Lithograph and 15 color litho plates, all housed within a brown folding portfolio with black stamped facsimile signature to front cover. Some light foxing to the portfolio pastedowns, entirely clean and sharp otherwise with crisp, bright prints. Quite scarce, unrecorded in OCLC and with only a single auction record, that in Greece. A very special association with Orphanos who would later publish the massive retrospective, TSAROUCHIS: The Face of Modern Greece. 'A revolutionary can't be classical at the same time. But Tsarouchis is. The day this painter dared to look for Hermes not on mount Olympus but in the 'Olympus Coffee-House', a myth left the pages of books and came to life, and the artist's eye was obligated to see the world differently. To put it differently, modern Greek reality, hitherto distorted by pseudo-philology. took its natural place amongst the creative interests of our time. And the painter, located in a space defined for him by this reality, shouldered the responsibility of finding the only form of expression appropriate to its distinctive character. To the extent that Tsarouchis proved worthy to cleanse the icon of Hellenism of its excess of gold, he is a revolutionary, whose aim was not to destroy, but to rediscover a tradition. But to the extent that he succeeded in making use of its secret teachings, he is classical. Odysseus Elytis'. Signed.