Feb 25, 2025
Yannis Tsarouchis (Greek, 1910-1989)
Study for the month of May, purple shirt, 1967
Acrylic on paper, 48 x 32.5 cm
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Yannis Tsarouchis (Greek, 1910-1989)
Study for the month of May, purple shirt, 1967
Acrylic on paper, 48 x 32.5 cm
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Yannis Tsarouchis, Sailor reading, 1981.
Yannis Tsarouchis, The thinker, 1936
Yannis Tsarouchis "Neon" Cafe (Daytime), 1956-1966 "Neon" Cafe (Night), 1965 - 1966 On view, National Gallery
ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΤΣΑΡΟΥΧΗΣ (1910-1989) Giannis Tsarouchis «Ναύτης» “Sailor” Λαδοπαστέλ σε κραφτ χαρτί, 1987 Oil pastel on craft paper 49 x 32 εκ.
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Yannis Tsarouchis, Untitled (c. 1989)
The Arrest of Three Communists, Each Resisting in his Own Way: the First Has Surrendered, The Second is Struggling, and the Third is under the Bed. First Days of the 1944 Uprising. Painting by Yiannis Tsarouchis. 1944
"Dancing in Real Life" makes a strong case for recognizing the Greek painter as a pioneer of queer art.
Yannis Tsarouchis, the gay Greek artist-provocateur, was well ahead of his time. His mid-20th century paintings explored homoeroticism when such themes were still highly taboo. Dancing in Real Life, a comprehensive survey at Wrightwood 659, shines a much merited spotlight on the artist. Featuring over 200 works, it’s Tsarouchis’s first major show in the United States and makes a strong case for recognizing this modernist painter as a pioneer of queer art.
Born in Piraeus, Greece in 1910, Tsarouchis studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts while working as a stage designer. Among the exhibition’s highlights is the documentation of Tsarouchis’s work for theater and opera, including sketches for stage designs and photographs with the luminaries he collaborated with, including Maria Callas and Samuel Beckett.
Tsarouchis’s painting influences ranged from Byzantine art and El Greco to Western modernism. In works like“The Thinker” (1936), and “Seated Dark-Haired Youth in Overcoat” (1937), he takes up Matisse’s ornamental approach. “The Thinker” also satirizes Rodin’s famous modernist sculpture. In Tsarouchis’s work, the sitter — a young dark-haired male in a blue striped suit — has a debonair rather than pensive air. The young man’s frontal pose and direct gaze suggest seduction, while the weightiness of the Rodin-esque hand supporting a massive head is transposed into a feather-like graze of an index finger against a cheek.