Rare, 2000 Poster, Greece, Dimitrios Galanis, The Boy with the Hobby-Horse, Greek Art

Original Rare 

Poster from 2000

Δημήτριος Γαλάνης

Το παιδί με το ξύλινο άλογο

Dimitrios Galanis

The Boy with the Hobby-Horse

National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 2000

Dimensions approx. 48 cm x 32.5 cm

Dimitrios Galanis (1879 – 1966) was a Greek artist and friend of Picasso.. In 1920 he exhibited alongside such major figures of modern art as Matisse and Braque, while from 1921 on he also exhibited alongside Juan Gris, Dufy, Chagall, and Picasso. In 1922 his first one-man exhibition received the enthusiastic critical response that established his reputation. Seated Nude was among the pictures exhibited, and in an introduction to the exhibition André Malraux described the artist’s work as “having the power to stir emotions equivalent to that of Giotto“. Galanis received greater critical acclaim abroad in his lifetime than any other Greek modern artist of the early 20th century. The French state honored him with the highest distinctions: full professor at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and a lifelong member of the Académie française. Living in Montmartre for fifty years in a house which is now the Musée de Montmartre, Galanis developed his artistic talent beyond painting. He was also known for his illustrative wood-engravings in books, such as the Limited Editions Club of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and the Cresset Press edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost.