3. 3AR (25659181/2) NIKOS ENGONOPOULOS (1907-1985) Tragedy at Herodion signed in Greek lower right oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm (36 1/4 x 28 3/4in.) Painted in 1955. Provenance The artist's collection, Athens. Private collection. Exhibitions Athens, Athens Technological Institute (ATI), February 6-18, 1963, no. 14. Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Peinture Grecque Contemporaine, May 8 - June 5, 1964. Athens, Vera Kouloura Mansion - Benaki Museum, Pictorial Space - Theatricality, Athens Cultural Capital of Europe, Autumn 1985, p. 16 (illustrated). Literature Eleftheria newspaper, February 17, 1963 (illustrated). Vradyni newspaper, February 2, 1967 (illustrated). The Greek Painters, vol. II, 20th Century, Melissa editions, Athens 1975, p. 262 (discussed), p. 280, fig. 28 (illustrated). T. Spiteris, Three Centuries of Modern Greek Art 1660-1967, Athens 1979, vol. II, p. 170 (illustrated). Ikon magazine, no. 7, Summer 1981 (illustrated). An. Kafetsi, La Peinture Hellénique autour des Années Trente et la Problème de la "Grécité", doctoral dissertation, Université de Paris (Pantheon - Sorbonne), Paris 1985, pp. 20-50 (discussed), p. 645 (listed, fig.4). Dromena magazine, no. 10-11, July-October 1985 (cover illustration). Eleftheros Typos newspaper, November 4, 1985 (illustrated). Nikos Engonopoulos, Epta Imeres - Kathimerini weekly magazine, June 30, 2002, p. 11 (mentioned). E. Benisi, Nikos Engonopoulos and Cityscapes, doctoral dissertation, vol. 1, Athens 2006, (illustrated between pp. 227-228). K. Perpinioti-Agazir, Nikos Engonopoulos, Son Univers Pictural, exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonée, Benaki Museum, Athens 2007, no. 542, p. 293 (illustrated), p. 453 (catalogued and illustrated). N. Chaini, The Painting of Nikos Engonopoulos, doctoral dissertation, National Technical University of Athens, Athens 2007, pp. 246-247 (discussed), p. 966, no. 74 (listed), p. 248, fig. 74 (illustrated). E. Georgiadou-Kountoura, On Women, Gender Identity, and Defenseless Loves, Nefeli editions, Athens 2019, p. 75, fn. 50 (mentioned).