John Christoforou (b.1921)

Woman with Ear-rings

Details

John Christoforou (b.1921)
Woman with Ear-rings
signed and indistinctly dated lower right Christoforou/194..
oil on board
21½ x 14½in. (54.7 x 36.8cm.)
and an unframed oil on board - 'White Mask' by the same artist (2)

Literature

G. Xuriguera, Christoforou, Paris, 1993, p.8

Exhibited

London, Twenty Brook Street Gallery, Paintings by John Christoforou, 1949 where purchased by Nevill Coghill Esq

Lot Essay

This work is a rare example of Christoforou's early work painted in London - 'Twenty Brook Street Gallery offered him a modest contract followed by several purchases and three exhibitions, the paintings from which have since been destroyed'.
(see G. Xuriguera, loc. cit., 1993)

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