
Lot 65AR
Yiannis Tsarouchis(Greek, 1910-1989)Maquette for the tragedy 'Troades' by Euripides, 1975 45 x 73 cm.
13 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
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Yiannis Tsarouchis (Greek, 1910-1989)
Maquette for the tragedy 'Troades' by Euripides, 1975
signed in Greek and dated '75' (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 x 73 cm.
signed in Greek and dated '75' (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 x 73 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, Athens.
Yannis Tsarouchis designed the sets for Euripides's The Trojan Women staged by Jean Villar's renowned Théâtre National Populaire (TNP) in Paris in 1963 and directed by Yannis Cacoyannis. The translation was by Jean Paul Sartre.1
1.See Yannis Tsarouchis 1910-1989, exhibition catalogue, Benaki Museum, Athens 2009, p. 278; Heracles-Olympos General Cement Company's 1975 Weekly Calendar illustrated by Tsarouchis (January 19-25).