77. 77AR Nikos Engonopoulos (Greek, 1907-1985) Hommage à Greco signé et inscrit en grec (au revers) huile sur toile 100.5 x 36cm (39 9/16 x 14 3/16in). Peint vers 1935-1937. signed and inscribed (on the reverse) oil on canvas Provenance Private collection, Athens. Littérature K. Perpinioti-Agazir, Nikos Engonopoulos, Son Univers Pictural, exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonée, Benaki Museum, Athens 2007, no. 202, p. 241 (illustrated), p. 409 (catalogued, discussed and illustrated). "As a former student of Parthenis, I was taught a theory "tirée de Cezanne et du Gréco", and actually, when I was a student, I had copied—with such passion—many parts of his divine Concert of Angels." N. Engonopoulos1 As noted by artist Argyris Stylianidis, who was a student of Parthenis at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1930 to 1934, the master used to assign some of his students to copy El Greco paintings at the National Gallery in Athens.2 1 Letter to his wife-to-be Lena Tsiokou-Engonopoulou, September 11, 1959. See N. Engonopoulos, ...and I Love you Madly, Letters to Lena 1959-1967 [in Greek], Ikaros editions 1993/2007, p. 85. 2 Interview by E. Hamalidis, Kathimerini newspaper, July 27, 1997, p. 24. See also K. Perpinioti-Agazir, Nikos Engonopoulos, Son Univers Pictural, exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonée, Benaki Museum, Athens 2007, p. 409.