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Chryssa S/N Print, Time Square Fragment #5 #1146692

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Chryssa S/N Print, Time Square Fragment #5 #1146692
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Artist: Chryssa

Title: Time Square Fragment #5

Year: Circa 1980

Medium: Serigraph

Edition: 300

Paper Size: 28" x 37"





Chryssa (born Chryssa Mavromichali in 1933)
comes from a famous and once-powerful family from the Deep Mani.
She herself has said, "I do not come from a rich family
[but from] a family with good education (for example, one of
my sisters studied medicine) and good exposure to the creative
arts": This sister, for instance, was a friend of Greek
poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. </p>
<p>Chryssa began painting while she was still an adolescent, and
on the advice of a leading art critic in Greece, her family
sent her to Paris to study at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere
in 1953-54. She was barely twenty-one when she sailed to New
York. "I had an enormous curiosity about America and I
felt that it would be much easier in America to achieve a freedom
of expression rather than in European countries."





  Chryssa,
best known for her "Luminist" sculpture in brilliantly ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1980</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:28</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:37</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Chryssa S/N Print, Time Square Fragment #5</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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