Product Description
We are offering today this wonderful hand signed and numbered Limited Edition Serigraph created by CHRYSSA VARDEA in 1980. This is a gorgeous print, one must see it in person to truly appreciate it. There are more to this series which I will be posting shortly. We are offering this print at a very low price today. Excellent condition. Chryssa (born Chryssa Mavromichali in 1933) comes from a famous and once-powerful family from the Deep Mani. She herself has said, "I do not come from a rich family [but from] a family with good education (for example, one of my sisters studied medicine) and good exposure to the creative arts": This sister, for instance, was a friend of Greek poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. Chryssa began painting while she was still an adolescent, and on the advice of a leading art critic in Greece, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in 1953-54. She was barely twenty-one when she sailed to New York. "I had