Live Auction 16978Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)
Lot 698

Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

Hotel Syria

Closed16 May 2019

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USD 187,500

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Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)
Hotel Syria
signed 'STAMOS' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated '"HOTEL SYRIA" 1959 STAMOS' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
70 x 60 in. (177.8 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1959.

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Turske & Turske, Zürich
Anon. sale; VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 31 May 2006, lot 593
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“The phantoms gliding through and under the painted surfaces belong to Stamos, and they belong to us too, if we linger and look intimately from within the layers of self-generating light” (B. Cavaliere, Theodoros Stamos, New York, 1981, n.p.)