Iakovos Rizos

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Athenian Evening or On the Terrace, 1897

Iakovos Rizos or Iacovos Rizos (Greek: Ιάκωβος Ρίζος Greek pronunciation: [iˈa.ko.vos ˈɾi.zos]), also known as Jacques Rizo,[1] (c. 1849 – 1926) was a Greek painter who worked primarily in Paris.

Biography

Rizos was born in

École des Beaux Arts,[2][3] and spent his career there. He died there in 1926.[4]

Rizos was a friend of

Paris salons, beginning with a portrait of his sister, Mrs. Paparrigopoulos, which he re-worked for the 1878 Paris exposition.[2] In 1875 his portrait of "Miss R." in a black silk dress with violet sleeves was noted by one critic as one of the finest portraits in the show.[5] In 1877 his Indolence, a nude, was praised by one critic except for the execution of the head,[6] and by another praised for the colouration but faulted for the drawing, particularly of the hands and feet.[7]

Rizos' Athenian Evening or On the Terrace of 1897 won a silver medal at the 1900 Paris exposition and was praised at the 1899 art exhibition in Athens.[3] It depicts an officer talking to two women on a terrace at sunset, with the Acropolis in the background, in contrast to the more common depictions of Greece in 19th-century painting that focus on rural life.[8] It is a noted example of the juxtaposition of sophisticated urban life with the country's past grandeur, which was a theme of Greek artists in the late 19th and 20th centuries.[9][10] It and a number of his other paintings are in the Coutlides Collection at the National Gallery of Greece;[3] there are also several in private collections in both Athens and Paris.[4]

At the 1897 salon, Albert-Gustave Belleroche exhibited a portrait of Rizo.[11][12]

Gallery

  • Paintings by Iakovos Rizos
  • Lady in the Garden with her Dog (1885–1890)
    Lady in the Garden with her Dog (1885–1890)
  • The Artist's Sister Reading (1885–1890)
    The Artist's Sister Reading (1885–1890)
  • Female Nude, c. (1849–1926)
    Female Nude, c. (1849–1926)

References

  1. ISBN 9789602042267, p. 99
    (in Greek).
  2. ^
    OCLC 24508789, pp. 153–54
    (in French).
  3. ^
    OCLC 5946277
    , p. 238.
  4. OCLC 26197893, p. 9
    (in French).
  5. ^ Le Courier Littéraire, 25 May 1877, p. 274 (in French).
  6. OCLC 458126895, p. 98
    (in French).
  7. ISBN 978-0-89236-467-1, p. 50
    .
  8. OCLC 2753606, p. 14
    .
  9. ^ Mary Greensted, "The Arts and Crafts Movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876–1930)", MPhil thesis, University of Birmingham, n.d., p. 31 (pdf).
  10. ^ Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, dessins, modèles: Salon de 1897, p.  11 (in French).
  11. ^ L'Illustration 109 (1897) 307 (in French).

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