01 Painting - Marine Art, Nicholas Takis' Harbor Scene, with Footnotes, #325

Nicholas Takis, New York (1903 - 1965)

Harbor Scene, c. 1963

Oil On Masonite Board

15 3/8"H X 19 1/2"W

Private collection

Sold for $225 in Jun 2022

"Although Nicholas Takis enjoyed all of the luxuries of a millionaire's son only a few years ago and today is selling his paintings for what he can get, the change in his fortune doesn't bother him. He's as "happy now as I ever was,"  Evening Journal, 1930

Nicholas Takis  (1903-64) was born in 1903 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1920s growing up. Key artistic developments that had been established in the earlier part of the 20th century continued to be worked on during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period the careers of many inspiring and pioneering artists began to flourish, yet at the same time there was an atmosphere of consideration and solemnity following the horrors of the First World War. Major shifts in politics were taking place worldwide, and Marxism took a strong hold as an ideology amongst artist groups and communities. Due to its cultural importance, Surrealism spread as an ideology on an international scale, and became the most prominent theme of the pictorial arts in the 1920s. 

The Bauhaus movement developed during this time and focused on a unification of all modes of art, working towards the idea of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. The liberal politics of the Weimar Republic in Germany empowered this movement to blossom and flourish and develop further. The leading focus for art during this time was on Freudian theory and the human subconscious, and these ideas were best portrayed by artists including Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux, whilst in Paris, artists such as Brancusi, Modigliani and Soutine developed methods of art which were vivid and dynamic. More on Nicholas Takis

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