Aristide Papageorge

(Alexandria, Egypt 1899 - 1983 London)

Mounira Combing Her Hair, c.1950

oil on canvas

singed lower right 'A.Papageorge'

66.5 x 55 cm.

in a period frame

Provenance

from the Papageorge Estate

Aristide Papageorge (1899-1983) was a Greek from Alexandria, Egypt. He studied art in Paris, at the Academies de la Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Julian. After the Suez Crisis he left Egypt to settle in Paris, where he exhibited regularly with the Galerie Vendome. He remained in Paris until the late 1950s when he moved to London on his marriage to the artist Marjorie Blackmore (1916-2015). Exhibitions include the Panhellenic Exhibitions in Athens, 1939 and 1973, The Venice Biennale 1950, 1952, The Ethnike Pinakotheke (National Gallery), which has work of his in the collection, the Royal Academy, London and a major retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Greece, 1986.