Leontos Sgourou II, Athens

Catalog no.

0006

Year

1965

Subject

City and street

Media

Oil / Acrylic /
Oil on board

Size (H x W)

38 x 26 inches

Availability

Not for sale
A second painting sold in England in 1969. (No. 0005) There is no image of the painting No.0005, but there is a sketch, No 1062. "We lived in the house at the top. Painted from a drawing (on butcher's wrapping paper) surrounded by Athenian schoolchildren who insisted on counting the steps up the road and comparing them with the number on the drawing. Fortunately I had the right answer". P.B.B.1970

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