LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (height) by 7.87 in. (20.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Greek (lower left)

Exhibited:

Athens, Ora Gallery, Works painted between 1978-1980, 3-29 November 1980, no. 33 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue).,After living in isolation for almost 25 years D. Diamantopoulos his work at the National Gallery of Athens in 1978 and then followed up with a major show at the "Ora" gallery. The Girl belongs to that body of work. He places his figure in a three-quarter position against a monochromatic background. He is interested in the third dimension and he treats his figures as living entities who relate exciting stories. His distinctive rounded shapes convey a sense of kindness, honesty and humility captured in their eyes or mouths. The elliptic schematization alludes to the catholic and not the particular, while the indefinite background dispenses with the renaissance notion of the painting as a window to the world. The girl with the white jacket touches an innocent chord in us through the counterbalance of her face and hands; a naivety expressed through the simplest and yet the richest means