Night Club
Catalog no.
0074
Year
1960
Subject
Other
Media
Oil / Acrylic /
Oil on board
Size (H x W)
36 x 49 inches
Availability
Sold
Sometimes called 'Bonga, Bonga, Bonga!', or 'Dancing Club, London'. Sold in 1991, originally started in the fifties "this one took some time to arrive. Painted from memory of an actual experience, it was finished for the Athens Exhibition in 1966," P.B.B. See also Plaka (Cat. No. 187) and Panegyri (Cat. No. 199).
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