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"Vessels
Laid up", 1980
By Paris Prekas
(1926-1999)
Oil on canvas, 95Χ95 cm.
Inv. No.: P-16
"Scrap
Ships", 1979
By Paris Prekas
(1926-1999)
Water-colour on paper, 16Χ16 cm.
Inv. No.: P-17
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PARIS
PREKAS (1926-1999)
Born in Athens, Paris
Prekas studied at
the School of Fine Arts (1948-1952) with Dimitris Biskinis, Umbertos
Argyros and Andreas Georgiadis. In 1963 he continued his
studies
in Paris with the help of a scholarship from the French government. He had his first solo exhibition
in Athens (1955).
He also participated in many
group shows in Greece and abroad, including all Pan-Hellenic and the
Biennales of Paris, Sao Paolo and Alexandria. He
was engaged with sculpture and jewelry and has decorated a series of
public places as well. He was awarded with
the School of Fine Arts Prize
(1952), the 1st Prize for Painting
in Athens (1958) and the 2nd in Paris (1959), as well as with the
Silver Medal for Painting in that same city (1962). His work
belongs to the area of abstract expressionism, without going away from
his personal descriptive and geometric style. Paris Prekas
passed
away in Athens (1999).
P.D.Cangelaris,
Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris
Collection, vol.1,
Athens 1991
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