By Theodoros Stamos
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #1" is an original color screen print on heavy Wove paper by noted Greek artist Theodoros Stamos, 1922-1997. It is hand signed and numbered 70/225 in pencil by the artist. The image size 30 x 22.65 inches, sheet size is 34 x 26.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Theodoros Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School's first and second generations. His age, in particular, afforded him this unique position, as he was the youngest member of the "Irascibles," the core group of fifteen New York School painters publicized by Nina Leen's 1951 photograph in Life magazine. Like his New York School contemporaries, in particular his close friends Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, Stamos continuously explored the workings of artistic form through color. Throughout his long career, Stamos has continued to be renowned as an abstract expressionist
Born in 1922 in New York to parents of Greek heritage, Stamos showed exceptional promise early in life. At thirteen years old, in 1936, he accepted a scholarship to the American Artists' School in New York to study sculpture with Simon Kennedy and Joseph Konzal...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Theodoros Stamos Art