Georges Yatrides

Born 1931

Georges Yatrides Born to Franco-American nationality, Georges Yatrides was born in France in 1931. He was born of Greek parents who emigrated in 1917, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. He had a Christian Orthodox Archimandrite for a great grandfather and a Graeco-American father who was a native of the United States studying in France, himself the son of an Christian Orthodox Deacon carrying out his Christian pastorate in Rock Springs in Wyoming, USA.

Life and his craft drove Georges Yatrides to expatriate himself to Switzerland, Greece, Africa, Mexico, the United States and several times to Great Britain.

In 1954, still under the influence of Gauguin and the Fauvists, he exhibited 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 was noticed by an expert, attached to the International Galleries in Chicago and accepted a contract for exclusive world rights proposed by its director Samuel E. Johnson.

In 1958 he was in an exhibition, "Drawings and Watercolours of the French School 1900-1959", which was works of artists who had, for the most part, participated in the Exhibition : From Clouet to Matisse - French drawings in American Private Collections.

Freed from all exterior constraint, 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 followed. His work is exhibited in the XIth and XIIIth Salons in Montmorency, in 1981 and 1983; the XXXIIIrd Salon in Montargis, in 1988; the French and Canadian International Biennials in 1987, 1989 and 1991.

In 1983, Jacques Charpentier composed 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.

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Summary: 1954 First solo exhibition Vichy France 1956 Solo exhibition "Gallery of Vowels Paris" 1959 "French Contemporary Masters" Chicago Ill. USA Solo exhibition Chicago, International Galleries Chicago Exhibition "Drawings and Watercolors 1900-1959" World School event 1960 "Watercolors 1910-1960" World School event 1961 Contrat exclusivité 1961-1972 G. Yatridès - S.-E. Johnson 1963 Gallery Juarez - Palm Beach solo exhibition 1965 Solo exhibition Columbus, City of historic monuments including the Capitol 1861, important city of Ohio with Cleveland and Cincinnati 1969 1971 CEA-Centre d'Etudes nucléaire - AEC: French Atomic Energy Commission his own personal researches about light dissociated of time 1974 Correlative Patents Washington DC Patent Office corresponding CEA culminated researches 1975 Magazine "Parler" summer 1975."Yatridès predecessor": Christian Gali editor-in-Chief 1976 "Dictionary of Painters Sculptors Designers and Engravers": Benezit 1976 Gründ edition 1978 "Journal de Lyon", Claude Bandieri-Yatrides 1979 "First Retrospective 1945-1978" La Condamine Meylan, France "World Sephardi World Federation" proposal "Management and Investments S.A". Switzerland Geneva SA, financial group, proposal 1980 Solo exhibition - "Galerie Jean Minet" Place Beauvau, Paris Directory of "Art Internationnal" 1980-1981 1981 "XIth Salon Montmorency" Guest of Honor Solo exhibition Switzerland - the Cnesseth proposal. Preeminent private Collections Tax administration of State French checks from 1977 to 1985, due to the important sales of his paintings, biography official admitted that highly values its work "The Rails of the Sky" Exhibition in Crypts of Sacré-Coeur Paris 1982 "Salon Comparaisons 1982" Paris, France Two paintings GY selected Alexandre Bourmeyster Professor university Semiologist: "Discursive study of Yatrides work" 1983 Arthur Conte Historian, President of the Union of Western Europe, Minister President director general French TV Channels : "Yatrides stunning graphics the art of the great masters" in his book "1er Janvier 1983" Christie's London 22.03.83 - Sale record £ 45.864 Lion's Club organization exceptional sale of painting for dystrophic children of Poland. Jacques Charpentier "Prélude pour l'Ailleurs" based Yatrides "The new Scrolls" painting" Press Items: sale record 800,000 Francs (120.000 €) "XIIIth Salon Montmorency" Guest of Honor "Annual Art Sales index" 1984 Leading article of "France Presse" information worldwide consequential to the result of the sale for the Poland "Arts Magazine" No. 702 1984 : "Salon Comparaisons" "Demeures et Chateaux" Magazine ISSN oct 27, 1984 Second Poland travel Consul general of Poland "gratitude for GY help and support for the cause of Franco-Polish friendship" Metallograms, 2nd exhibition at Condamine Meylan, France "Mayer Directory International" - sale record $ 63,400 "Jeune Chambre économique de Grenoble" - Tribute to Yatridès for his decisive help "Aubusson tapestries" proposal. 1985 "Tzag" Exhibition in Zurich and Wil, Switzerland Master Francis Faure & Bernard Rey Contracting Sale painting Yatrides Auction - Drawing: World sales record: 150,000 Francs "Germann" Yatrides paintings important auctions - Zurich (Switzerland) "La Gazette de l ' Hôtel Drouot" occulted voluntarily them significant sales of the works of GeorgeYatridès results 1986 "Chamber Commerce Franco British" 1985-86 World sales records "Whos Who Internationnal Art" Patrick Barrer Director -letter published in tribute of GY "Metropolitan Washington Airports" Dulles International Airport proposal 1987 Jean Delannoy great French film maker Marcel Carné prominent French film maker "Synchrotron"-site of the AEC Atomic Energy Commission project 1988 "Who's Who in International Art"- biographical Dictionary 1987-1988, exceptionally 18 pages in tribute to the work of Yatrides "XXXIIIth Salon of the Gâtinais", Montargis - France, Grand Prix 1989 "Commander of the "Order of the star of Europe", "Great price of Prestige European" and "Knight of the Order of Malta" Arcole auctions Georges Yatridès - "Humanitarian Action" "XVIIIth Salon Montmorency" Guest of honor "Chamber Commerce Franco British" 1985-86 Yatrides world sales records "Who's Who in International Art dictionary" standpoint of the market regarding GY work Article in the "Dauphiné Libéré" on sales records and its major position 1990 "Gweneth Vidler-Dulles M.B.E.Member British Empire": Foundation Yatridès 1991 "Biennial France-Canada 1987-1989-1991" - "Yatrides grand master Guest of honor" "The Bureau of the Chamber of Discipline in Lyon- President Jean-Claude Loiseau

1992 "Yatrides Maître du temps" Biography by Arthur Conte (276 p.) ISBN 2-9507049-0-5

1993 "Biennial France-Canada 1991/1993 - Yatrides "Main master guest of Honor" 1994 "Yatrides and his century-the anti Picasso" : Alexandre Sacha Bourmeyster semiotician (268 p.) ISBN n° 2-9507049-1-3. "Professional biography" by the French State 1996 Organisation "Yatrides and its century" Guide Mayer information about the authenticity of Yatrides work 1997 James Crowley physicist and Yatrides work 1999 "Who'sWho in International Art dictionary" 2001 "Cahiers du Cinéma" "2001 a space odyssey" Stanley Kubrick "Yatrides, the Slab, the Bible and the Sphere": Alexandre Bourmeyster 2008 "Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs for Yatrides devotes 5 pages 2011 Letter to Mr Serge Tubiana Director of the "Cinémathèque Française" 2012 Michel Destot, "Mayor of Grenoble" to Frédéric Mitterand 2013 Trophy Yatrides to the "Réseau Entreprendre" winners