038*. GHIKA (HATZIKYRIAKOS) Nikos (1906-1994)

‘Landscape in Hydra’

Signed oil on hardboard 35×30 cm

€ 3.000 – 4.000

A wonderful island landscape by Ghika in which spirit, thought and logic serve as the “tectonic ingredients”. With exquisite expertise in both drawing and composition the artist transforms simple shapes and lines into captivating geological and organic structures. Through the movement of lines and intricate triangular lanceolate or spherical leaves on the trees and plants the artist infuses a melodious quality into the psychological impact of his final picture. Continuous juxtapositions in the white and black borders and the checkered lines and diagonals of the walls and spicy design traces compose an architectural narrative fabric with rhythm and alternations of intensities and silences impressively unfolding the Greek island landscape.