Nonda (Papadopoulos) (Greek, 1922-2005) Femme à la guitare (Peint en 1968.signed (on the reverse); bearing the artist's stamp (on the stretcher)acrylic on canvas)

Nonda (Papadopoulos) (Greek, 1922-2005)
Femme à la guitare signé 'NONDA (au revers); porte le cachet de l'artiste (sur le châssis)acrylique sur toile94 x 130cm (37 x 51 3/16in).Peint en 1968.signed (on the reverse); bearing the artist's stamp (on the stretcher)acrylic on canvas

ExpositionsAthens, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Nonda, Peintre Grec de l'Ecole de Paris - Œuvres des Années 1955-1975, September 2003 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pp.13, 50).Nicosia, Cyprus, Famagusta Gate, Nonda, Peintre Grec de l'Ecole de Paris - Œuvres des Années 1955-1975, 2004 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 50).Athens, Benaki Museum, Nonda, Six Decades of Art 1940-2000, retrospective exhibition, December 14, 2006 - February 18, 2007.An extraordinary picture imbued with bold colours and free brushstrokes, Femme à la guitare emanates the musical, colourful brio of Nonda's 1960s work. Tributed as one of Greece's most diverse and celebrated artists of the postwar Ecole de Paris,1 the artist travelled to the United States in 1968 to spend a six-month period in New York City with his young American fiancée. Inspired by his new love, he threw his energy and excitement into an outstanding and joyous, if limited, series of vivid canvases that explore the abstracted human form with a new emphasis on colour. Musical instruments are symbolic and reoccurring in all phases of the artist's career as an expression of joy.1 From 1947 onward, Nonda lived and worked in Paris, exhibiting primarily with the Galerie Charpentier. He also showed in the annual Grand Palais Salons alongside such towering figures as Braque, Picasso, Leger, Buffet, Chagall, de Chirico, and Dali.