Rare, 1979, Maria Rengou, Spitia ke Kosmosidola, First Edition, 1/100, Art Book

Μαρία Ρέγκου

Σπίτια και Κοσμοείδωλα – Spitia ke Kosmoidola

Maria Rengou

Houses and World Views

Signed and dedicated by the artist to Greek author Evangelos Gazis on an attached Businness Card

Published by Frinos, Athens in 1979

12 cm x 17 cm

26 pages

Original Paper Binding

First Edition, Limited Edition (about 100 copies) not for sale, for private use

Maria Rengou-Thanasekou was a Greek artist. She was born and raised in wartime Thessaloniki. From the age of 12 she studied painting with her uncle Polykleitos Regos. Later, in 1956, she studied fashion design for two years in Paris. She then settled in Athens. and worked in journalism (magazine layout and book editing). Rengou presented her first paintings in 1964. In 1974, at Quantas gallery, she exhibited her work from 1968-1974. In 1972 Pyli Publications published Wilhelm Reich’s emblematic book Listen, Little Man!. The cover adorned a work by Maria Rengou. Since then, it has remained one of the most successful Greek covers of all time. In 1979, the artist published, at Frynos Publications, a small book entitled “Houses and World Views“, where she presented some of her paintings in black and white. Maria Regou translated, wrote poems, and was the editor of many publications. She died in 2017.