Georges Yatridès

Georges Yatridès is a French-American painter born in France in 1931. His work is unrecognized in his native country but is very popular in various North American Private Collections.

Biography

French-American painter Georges Yatridès in July 2010.

In 1954, still under the influence of Gauguin and the Fauvists he exhibits paintings dating from 1945 to 1949 in Vichy then in 1956 in Paris at Madame Chastenet de Gery's Gallerie des Voyelles since disappeared. There he is noticed by an expert attached to the International Galleries in Chicago and accepts a contract for exclusive world rights proposed by its director Samuel E. JOHNSON. All his production makes its way into the largest Private Collections in the United States and Canada. He figures in numerous Retrospectives and Art School's artistic events (see below).
From 1957 to 1965 in accordance with the same contracts of exclusive rights personal exhibitions are mounted in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Switzerland, Great Britain and Greece, where all his works are acquired by important Private Collections. A permanent exhibition of his paintings is mounted in the United States, tacitly extending these contracts until such time as Yatridès on his own initiative puts an end to them. Freed from all exterior constraint, master of his graphics, his light and his chromatic, Yatridès is thus enabled to undertake the large compositions that will characterize his art of the seventies, and in which will be blended the scattered elements of his earlier work. Retrospective exhibitions follow throughout the world, among which, the one in Paris in 1974. In 1981, three crypts in the Sacré-Cœur in Paris are made available for YATRIDES to expose paintings of biblical inspiration. His paintings and drawings arouse the enthusiasm of important international collectors, justifying the prevailing prices paid amongst them.

Some of his paintings

• L'Oiseau de feu, 40x65 cm, 1950
• L'oiseau et l'absolu, 38x46 cm, 1950
• Le buste, 81x65 cm, 1955
• Petit déjeuner et nu, 60x92 cm, 1960
• L'Adolescent et l'Enfant, 100x81 cm, 1963
• Les deux personnages sur la plage, 65x100 cm, 1963
• Christ, Leica et orange, 92x73 cm, 1963
• Vibration Essentielle, 97x130 cm, 1982

BATAILLE DE JACOB AVEC l’ANGE (1982) triptych :

• La Bataille de Jacob avec l’ange (le Combat), 80x130cm, 1982
• La Bataille de Jacob avec l'Ange (Le mur), 89x116 cm, 1982
• La Bataille de Jacob avec l'Ange (L'Aube), 97x146 cm, 1982

Main events and exhibits

• Drawings and Watercolors of the French School 1900-1959, 1958 : works of artists who had for the most part participated in the prestigious Exhibition : From Clouet to Matisse - French drawings in American Private Collections - An Exhibition organized at the Musée de l'Orangerie by the American Embassy in Paris
• Contempory French Masters,1959, Chicago bringing together 18 painters including Braque, Villon, Chagall, Picasso
• Masters of Modern Art 1910-1960, 1960 (Special Mention in Cubist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Surrealist Schools)
• Specialists in XXth Century Masters, 1965 (Special Mention in Collector's choice 1965)

Events in which Georges Yatridès participated

• XIe et XIIIe Salons in Montmorency, 1981 et 1983
• XXXIIIe Salon in Montargis, 1988

• French and Canadian International Biennials 1987-1988 – Special Guest of Honour. This event brings together more than 10 cities partners of this event, directly under the aegis of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
• Canada-France International Biennials 1988 in Québec – Great Master Guest of these Biennals organized by Jean-François Echegut bringing together more than 170 artists from more than 35 countries, flown to Canada in a Boeing specially chartered by him, followed by a sea container of 30 cubic meters holding more than 1000 works, notably those of Cocteau, Chagall, Matisse, André Lhote, Picasso…
• Canada-France Biennials 1991-1993 – Main Master Guest.

News

Retired of the International art market since the end of the 80’s for personal reasons, Georges Yatridès decides to come back in 2010 by selling his works directly to his amateurs and his Collectors. He creates, with the approval of the Non-profit Organization “Yatridès and his century” which the Board is constituted by French High Public Officials and which the object is to preserve and valorize the artist’s work, the web site YatridesArts.com which explains the reasons of his absence, his works and the available reproductions for sale. Thanks to YatridesArts.com Yatridès comes back in 2010 in the art market to unveil his two (2) last periods “Synthesis first” (1945-1988) – “Apodictic Synthesis last” (1945-2009). These periods clearly demonstrates the consistency of his work since his beginning in 1945 up to his apodictic period in 1977/1988 which was concluded by a spatial and omnipresent compression that takes control over the time. Some Collectors credited him with this term to define this New School of his kind in which Yatridès is the only representative for the simple reason he artistically transposed what he personally discovered in C.E.N.G. (Grenoble Nuclear Research Center).

Bibliography and Ressources

Numerous publications and catalogues are dedicated to him. In 1983, Jacques CHARPENTIER composes his Prelude for the Elsewhere in Rio de Janeiro, in homage to the New Scrolls, the painting that Yatridès had given for the Polish Children's Christmas, and whose sale at auction had made possible the sending of a convoy of medicines and medical equipment. In 1992, the work of Arthur Conte is published, "Yatridès, Master of Time", and in 1994, that of Alexandre (Sacha) Bourmeyster, "Yatridès and His Century, the Anti-Picasso". Followed by: in 1960, "YATRIDES ' Interstellar Icons" in KUBRICK 'S film of 1968, "2001: Space Odyssey", as well as "Yatridès and The Bible", Editor's Choice - to be published.

• Prelude for the Elsewhere , 1983, Jacques Charpentier, Rio de Janeiro in homage to the New Scrolls, the painting that Yatridès had given for the Polish Children's Christmas, and whose sale at auction had made possible the sending of a convoy of medicines and medical equipment.
• Yatridès, maître du Temps, Arthur Conte, 1992
• Yatridès et son siècle, l'Anti-Picasso, Alexandre (Sacha) Bourmeyster, 1994
• 1960, Les icônes interstellaires de Yatridès dans le film de Kubrick en 1968 "2001 : l'Odyssée de l'espace", Alexandre (dit Sacha) Bourmeyster
• Yatridès et la Bible, Alexandre (Sacha) Bourmeyster

External link

• Yatrides.com - Yatridès Master of time – Semiotic analysis of the substance and style of Georges Yatridès’s life and work. Biographic extracts from French tax office. Web site created by the Recognized Non-Profit « Yatridès and his century »
• Yatrides.org – The spiral of time – Second web site dedicated to the authentication of Georges Yatridès’s work especially by the D.G.I. (French General Tax Office). Web site created by the Recognized Non-Profit « Yatridès and his century »
• Yatridesarts.com - Web site created in 2010 to promote and sell the painter’s work