Giorgos Gounaropoulos (1889 -1977)

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Giorgos Gounaropoulos (1889 -1977) – Painting, oil on canvas.

Biography:

Giorgos Gounaropoulos was born in Sozopol, Bulgaria, on 22 March 1889, the sixth child of a Greek family. In the early 1900s the Bulgarian government put pressure on Greek-origin families in the country to adopt the Bulgarian national identity. The family decided to move to Greece, and in 1904 settled in Athens.

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Description

From 1907 to 1912 Gounaropoulos studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Spyros Vikatos, Dimitrios Geraniotis, Georgios Roilos and Georgios Jakobides.

He was awarded an Averoff scholarship, and after World War II (1914–18) he went to Paris in 1919 and attended the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. While in Paris he participated in Salons, and held his first solo exhibition at the Vavin-Raspail Gallery in 1926.

Gounaropoulos staged his first exhibition in Athens in 1924 and a controversial solo exhibition at the Stratigopoulos gallery in 1929.

Gounaropoulos returned to Athens permanently in 1931. He continued to exhibit in solo and group shows, including international shows in São Paulo in 1959 and Alexandria in 1963.

Gounaropoulos was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958. He died in 1977.

Giorgos Gounaropoulos (1889 -1977) – Painting, oil on canvas – An excellent and collectible piece.

Code: C582

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