Pavlos Dionyssopoulos ('Pavlos') (1930 Filitra, Greece - 2019 Paris), Bar

mixed media with drawing and collage on cardboard, 101 cm x 67,5 cm sheet dimension, signed, dated 75, some superficial paper abrasion, slight spotting, minimal darkening, mounting residues on verso

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens, Pavlos went to Paris in 1954 on a scholarship from the French government, where he settled permanently in 1958 and found his new artistic home. Around 1960, under the influence of the Nouveaux Réalistes, he turned away from painting and towards assemblage and collage. From 1963 onwards, he exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, the most important forum for contemporary art in France since 1946. A large group in Pavlos' work is made in a combination technique of drawing and painting, as well as shapes and stripes of paper material cut to size and used secondarily. In this case, half of the bottles on the lower shelf are glued on from white paper shapes, while the other half appears as a drawn outline. The upper bottles are each composed of two paper shapes, some of which reveal coloured halftone offset dots from poster printing. The background and contours are drawn with blue and white coloured pencil on light brown light cardboard.