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Greek, 1860-1924
Cairo
oil on canvas laid down on hardboard
signed lower right
titled and dated ‘913 lower left
32.7 x 23.3 cm
PROVENANCE
private collection, Athens
EXHIBITED
Κ. Π. Καβάφης, Ο κόσμος του και οι εικαστικές μορφές της εποχής του, The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, November 2003-January 2004
LITERATURE
Κ. Π. Καβάφης, Ο κόσμος του και οι εικαστικές μορφές της εποχής του, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2003, page 76, illustrated
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Tsirigotis was born in Corfu in 1860 and died in Cairo in 1924.
He studied at The Royal Institute of Fine Art, Naples under Domenico Morelli and Vincenzo Marinelli. He continued and completed his studies in Rome.
He settled firstly in Corfu, and then moved to Cairo where he taught at the Collège de la Sainte Famille, a Jesuit French school.
He is generally known for his Egyptian daily life scenes that have a lyric tone and genre portrait paintings.
In 1895 he painted the church of St. Nicholas of the Patriarchate in Cairo and in 1910 the church of St Constantine and St. Helena.
He participated in several important group exhibitions such as the 1888 Olympia exhibition in London (where he was awarded a merit award), the Berlin Exhibition of 1896, the Zappeio exhibition of 1898 and the Cairo exhibition of 1910.
His works are found in many private and public collections notably: The National Gallery, Athens, The Koutlidis Collection and The Kotsigras Collection.
