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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