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THEODOROS STAMOS (1922-1997)
Lot 131

THEODOROS STAMOS (1922-1997)

White Spring I

Closed10 March 2022

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USD 277,200

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THEODOROS STAMOS (1922-1997)
White Spring I
signed 'Stamos' (lower left); incised with the artist's signature, title and date '"WHITE SPRING I 1962-3 Stamos' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
71 7⁄8 x 47 7⁄8 in. (182.6 x 121.6 cm.)
Painted in 1962-1963.

Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 1985, lot 50
Private collection, United States
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 2018, lot 198
Hollis Taggart, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"...through nature, this is my discovery: happiness, even joy, at finding something, which I want to look at... So, it is the eye and the paint—paint on canvas—with which I am involved, allowing the paint to have a chance and achieving a harmony between the two."
—Theodoros Stamos