"The Cyclist and the Dog", 1994
By Edouard Sacaillan (1957)
Oil on canvas, 200Χ130 cm.
Inv. No.: P-71

Born at Thessalonica, Edouard Sacaillan studied at the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1976-1981) with Dimitris Mitaras and Yannis Moralis.  With a scholarship he continued his studies at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts (1984-1987), with Leonardo Cremonini.  He had his first solo exhibition in Athens (1983).  Other one-man and group shows followed both in Greece and abroad.  In 1992 he was awarded in Paris with the Lefranc - Bourgeois Prize.  His work is anthropocentric in the frame of objectivity with expressionist characteristics.  He lives and works in Athens.

P.D.Cangelaris, Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris Collection, vol.2, Athens 1999