Georges Yatridès

Georges Yatridès (March 5, 1931 — November 28, 2019) was a French painter.

Over the course of his lifetime, he lived in France and the United States. A representative of the International Galleries of Chicago was contracted to purchase Yatridès's works, which were sold to private collectors in Canada and the United States. Canada, Latin America, Switzerland, Great Britain and Greece, where his works were acquired by private collections and a museum. One solo exhibit was at the Contemporary French Masters in Chicago in 1959.

Yatridès made the large compositions that would characterize his art in the 1970s. In 1981, he exhibited paintings inspired by the Bible in three crypts in the Sacré-Cœur in Paris.

Events from the 1980s include: XIth and XIIIth Salons in Montmorency, Val d'Oise département, 1981 and 1983 in France. French and Canadian International Biennials, 1987–1988.

Yatrides died on November 28, 2019, in Saint-Marcellin, Isère, France.

Comparison to Kubrick

Art critics have suggested there are similarities between the monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and a recurring monolith motif in the artwork of Yatridès. Arthur Conte suggests that Yatridès' Adolescent and Child canvas painted in 1963 has a slab similar to that of Kubrick. Sacha Bourmeyster, a semiology specialist, states that the Yatridès slab communicates supernatural life in a manner similar to that in 2001. Similarities between Yatridès' art and Kubrick's monolith have also been noted on CyberArchi, an on-line French architecture magazine.

Works Selected works of Yatridès are:

Payage Anime aux Cypres, 40.5x33cm, 1947. Silent Worlds, 32 x 23.75", 1962. Provenance International Galleries, Chicago. Christ, Leica and orange, 92x73cm, 1963. Two people on the beach, 100x63cm, 1963. Le Mur, 24x20", 1964. House in Villars-de-Laus, 18 x ", 1965. Pitcher and Glass, 28.75 x 19.75", 1965. Still Life in Two Bunches, 36.25x28.75", 1965. Yellow Roses, 36x23.5", 1965. Ezekiel, 89x116cm, 1978. Essential vibration, 97x130cm, 1982. The spiral pillar of time, 65x92cm, 1982. Bowman embryogenetic resurrection, date unknown.

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