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Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr’s Greek Sale in Paris on 20 May 2026 totalled €4,333,720, selling 72 percent by lot and 99 percent by value. The sale was led by Poésie (Annonciation) by Constantinos Parthenis (1878-1967), which sold for €1,258,400, setting a new auction record for the artist and becoming the most expensive Greek painting of the 20th century. The largest painting by Parthenis ever offered at auction, it was a monumental work distinguished by its linear elegance, evocative palette and rhythmic composition, and had been estimated at €300,000 to 500,000.
Full Moon H by Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009), a master of geometric abstraction, sold for €508,400, twice its estimate of €250,000 to 350,000. An earlier work by Moralis, Le Printemps, which recalled the archetypal universe of an Ionian frieze, sold for €305,200, twice its pre-sale estimate.
From a private collection in Athens, Sur le toit-terrasse, ile de Tinos by Nikolaos Lytras (1883-1927), an oil on canvas painted circa 1923 to 1926, sold for €229,000, more than twice its high estimate, setting a new auction record for the artist. The painting was one of the twenty oils that represented Lytras’s work at the 1936 Venice Biennale.
Among the four works by Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) offered, The Stream II, an acrylic on canvas painted in 1977, sold for €165,500. A luxuriant composition charged with explosive energy, it vividly expresses Ghika’s bond with nature. Pont à Santorin, an oil on canvas executed in 1963, sold for €76,600, offering a pictorial interpretation of Santorini’s labyrinthine architecture built on a Cézannesque understanding of the landscape’s underlying geometric order.
Infinity Field, Torino series, an acrylic on canvas by Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997), co-founder of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, sold for €114,700. Stamos was considered a modern postwar master whose sensitive and luminous work was charged with sustained energy and tangible presence.
Le Zeybek by Nicholaos Gysis (1842-1901), an oil on canvas painted circa 1873, sold for €89,300 against an estimate of €50,000 to 70,000. Painted after Gysis travelled to Asia Minor in 1873 to study local life, it shows a young Zeybek figure in bright white garments and elaborate headgear, rendered with a restrained palette.
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