17. 17AR (25627747/2) FOTIS KONTOGLOU (1895-1965) Mountain warriors during the Greek revolution of 1821, heckled by the popular muse signed in greek and dated oil on canvas 80 x 64 cm (31 1/2 x 25 3/16in.) Painted in 1945. Provenance Mrs Papadeli collection (relative of Kondoglou). St. Kirloglou collection, Athens. Private collection, Athens. Exhibitions London, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Exhibition of Greek Art: 3000 B.C. - A.D. 1945, February 15 - March 17, 1946. London, Greek House, British Council, Six Contemporary Greek Painters, Diamantopoulos, Ghika, Kontoglou, Papaloukas, Semertzidis, Vakalo, March 21-31, 1946. Literature J. Chittenden, C. Seltman, Greek Art, a Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition Ηeld in 1946 at the Royal Academy Burlington House London, Faber and Faber editions, London 1947, p. 64, no. 516 (listed under the title Mountaineers in Hiding), plate 123, no. 516 (illustrated). Angloelliniki Epitheorisi magazine, no. 3, May 1946, p. 92 (mentioned). N. Zias, Photis Kontoglou, Painter, Commercial Bank of Greece edition, Athens 1993, p. 106, fn. 5 (mentioned).