Rare, 1990, Exhibition Poster, Panayiotis Tetsis, Art, Greece, Gallery Nees Morfes

Original Rare Exhibition Poster

from 1990

Τέτσης – Tetsis

Panayiotis Tetsis

Art Gallery Nees Morfes

Dimension approx. 68 cm x 79 cm

Panayiotis Tetsis (1925 – 2016) was a Greek painter. He was an exponent of the post-impressionistic seascape tradition. Although the artist depicts marine themes that are familiar to him – mostly set against the backdrop of Hydra and Sifnos. “If I take a long voyage at sea, I get bored,” Tetsis says, “and I don’t agree with Cavafy that headed for Ithaca we ought to hope that the voyage lasts as long as possible.” And he added: “I paint a large number of my seas from memory. I don’t need to paint them from life. And even if I do, I change them later in my studio, even changing them totally.” Balancing discipline and emotion, Tetsis regards himself as a painter driven by the senses. His singularity, according to Koutsomallis, consists in his combination of “elegiac color tones, compositional clarity and precision, thematic variety, a monumental character and freely, openly sketched contours”. In 1949 Tetsis along with Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas,[2] Yannis Moralis, Nikos Nikolaou, Nikos Engonopoulos and Yiannis Tsarouchis, established the “Armos” art group.