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Chryssa Serigraph, 4 Seasons -Greek Artist #1873525

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Chryssa Serigraph, 4 Seasons -Greek Artist #1873525
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Artist: Chryssa

Title: 4 Seasons

Year: 1980

Medium: Serigraph, Signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 300

Paper Size: 34" x 25.5"





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."





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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1980</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:34</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:25.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Chryssa Serigraph, 4 Seasons -Greek Artist</td></tr>



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