104. GHIKAS Nikos (Hatzikyriakos) (1906-1994)

Snowy Courtyard

Signed tempera on board 41x 50 cm

€ 2.500 – 3.000

Hatzikyriakos-Ghikas uses his mastery of design and composition to magically transform the abstract landscape into a theatrical setting, a dream state, structured by perfect composition and the obvious agony of correlations. Anti-naturalistic formations, abstractions, the reshaping of the form, are tools with which he achieves a lyrical performance and a psychographic depiction of the snowy courtyard while also discovering the rhythms of the lines and avoiding unnecessary detail. The ease with which he designs chairs, table, stair railings, stylized plant designs, wall fragments, reveal the rhythms of the piece, hiding and concealing unnecessary details, to give this unique work musicality and pace.