7. NIKOLAOS GYSIS (1842-1901) Nike signed "N. G. (centre right) and titled "NIKE" (lower centre) red chalk on paper pasted on board 42 x 33 cm (16.5 x 13.0 in.) Painted in 1897 sanguine on paper mounted on cardboard Provenance Über Land and Meer magazine collection, Germany. Private collection, Athens. Literature Letter from the artist to Anna Mae, February 18, 1897 (mentioned). Panathenea magazine, March 15, 1901, p. 404 (illustrated). D.G. Kaklamanos, Nikolaos Gysis, Athens 1901, p. 36 (illustrated). M. Montandon, Gysis, Derlag von Delhagen & Klafing editions, Bielefeld und Leipzig, 1902, p. 112 (mentioned), p. 147, no. 66 (listed), p. 69, fig. 66 (detail illustrated). K.F. Skokos, Ethnikon Imerologion 1904, vol. IX, Athens 1904, p. 90 (illustrated). Panathenea magazine, no. 89-90, June 15-31, 1904, pp. 171-172 (discussed), p. 172 (illustrated). Panathenea magazine, no. 287-288, September 15-30 1912, frontispiece (illustrated). Nicholaos Gysis's Letters, G. Drossinis, L. Koromilas ed, Eklogi editions, Athens 1953, p. 222 (mentioned), p. 202 (detail illustrated). Nikolaos Gyzis, the Great Painter, exhibition catalogue, Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens 2012, p. 2 (shown in a photograph with the artist in his studio, c. 1899).