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Roofgarden party

Roofgarden party – coloured wood engraving 1984 – 29/50 Image: 23.8 cm x 17.5 cm Sheet: 32 cm x 25 cm Greek-German school No 191 – Αcquisition 2008

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Blamont (The French town Blâmont)

Matthäus Merian der Ältere (1593 – 1650) printmaker, Blamont (The French town Blâmont) – coloured etching and engraving -1645 Double-page image from Topographia Palatinatus Rheni et Vicinarum Regionum – Matthaüs Merian, printmaker and publisher, Frankfurt 1645 (p. 51) Image: 21.5 cm x 34.4 cm Sheet: 31 cm x 40 cm German school No 931 – Αcquisition 2010

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Au bal des étudiants (At the students’ ball)

His last poster is Au bal des étudiants, «Composition inédite de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec». Even though he was making his drawings into lithographs, he did not have time to do it: he spent the winter of 1900-1901, ill, in Bordeaux. Local art dealer and framer Imberti lent the artist a studio where he lived from October to April. In this studio, he painted portraits and made some drawings, including this composition. This was the last creation of the painter printmaker. It is drawn with colour pencils, as he did after his stay in a psychiatric institution in 1899, and the image is...

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Aphrodite’s abode

Stas Paraskos (1933 – 2014) printmaker, Aphrodite’s abode – colour screen print – 1981 Image: 35 cm x 45 cm – Sheet: 50 cm x 70 cm English-Cpyriot school No 1310 – Αcquisition 2011

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