GEORGES YATRIDES Oil on Canvas Signed and dated -"Yatrides 65" Woman and Flowers

GEORGES YATRIDES
Oil on Canvas
19 5/8 x 28 3/4"
Signed and dated -"Yatrides 65"
"WOMAN/FLOWERS"

Georges Yatridès (born 1931) is an artist of Greek heritage. His work is held in various North American private collections, and has been featured in retrospectives and art school events.

Georges Yatridès was born in 1931 in France. His parents were Greek. During the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, they moved to France in 1917. His father was of Greek heritage, born in the United States, and studied in France. His paternal grandfather was a Christian Orthodox Deacon who worked as a pastor in Rock Springs, Wyoming. His great-grandfather was a Christian Orthodox Archimandrite.

Over the course of his lifetime, he has lived in France and the United States.

In 1954 he exhibited paintings produced from 1945 to 1949 in Vichy. In 1956, his work was shown in Paris at Madame Chastenet de Gery's Gallerie des Voyelles. A representative of the International Galleries of Chicago contracted to purchase Yatridès's works which were sold to private collections in Canada and the United States. Two works sold through the Chicago firm are Daybreak in Port and Landscape, both made in 1960.
From 1957 to 1965, he held solo exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Switzerland, Great Britain and Greece, where his works were acquired by private collections and a museum. One solo exhibit was at the Contemporary French Masters in Chicago in 1959.

Yatridès has been described by writer Vanessa Fize as a great contemporary painter, driven by his passion for light and science. Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse are believed by some to have been an influence on his art. His work had elements of graphic art in the 1960s. The following decade he studied in Grenoble at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) to research light and color. As his career progressed he explored use of different media and materials.

Yatridès made the large compositions that would characterize his art in the 1970s. In 1981, he exhibited paintings inspired by the Bible in three crypts in the Sacré-Cœur in Paris.

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