Nassos Daphnis Art
American, 1914-2010
The Greek-born American artist Nassos Daphnis was a major figure in the 20th Century art world and is recognized for his mastery of geometric abstraction and his evolution into what became known as Hard-Edge Painting.
Daphnis was actively supported by the Leo Castelli Gallery for 39 years, who placed his work in some of the best museum collections around the world. He also gave him 17 solo shows, making him the 3rd most exhibited artist of the Gallery, right after Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In addition to these exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery, Daphnis was featured in 23 group shows alongside John Chamberlain, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, among others.
In describing the work of Nassos Daphnis, Leo Castelli has said, “His paintings were more rigorous than the other geometric painters. From the day I saw his first slides I recognized this, and that he differed also because there was no hint of anything that should suggest sentiment. Sentimentality of any type was ruled out.”
Daphnis was one of the pioneers of the Minimalist school of New York. New York art critic April Kingsley wrote, “Some of Daphnis’ paintings from the later 50s are so radical you’d assume they’d been painted at least 10 to 15 years later. His devotion to purity predicts 60s minimalism; his systemic approach predates systemic painting.”
In the 1950’s when Barnett Newman was doing his stripe paintings with traditional brush strokes, Daphnis had already introduced the roller in order to erase the human touch and reached the perfection he always strived for.
In 1958, Daphnis developed his Color & Plane Theory to liberate color from the restriction of form. In doing so, he used multiple planes of solid color to create the illusion of depth, space, and movement amid smooth, uninterrupted surface textures.
Nassos Daphnis remained outside recognized schools and moved fluidly among emerging styles, with one goal — perfection. He remains a pioneer of the Hard-Edge Geometric abstraction and managed through his colossal work to overcome all the most difficult techniques and challenges by pioneering: magna painting (1958), Plexiglas sculpture (1962), epoxy painting (1966), giant-scale murals (1969), Gestält Arc Series (1976), and computer-generated works (1985).
In 1967, Nassos Daphnis was one of the co-founders of City Walls Inc. together with Richard Anuszkiewicz, Jason Crum, Knox Martin, Mel Pekarsky, Tania, Robert Wiegand, and other notable painters of the period.
Daphnis has been the recipient of numerous prestigious art awards. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977 and received the Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 1986. Daphnis’ works are in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Basil Goulandris Museum, Greece.
Daphnis had 123 exhibitions during his lifetime, both domestic and international: 90 group shows and 33 solo shows, including four retrospective museum exhibitions.(Biography provided by Richard Taittinger Gallery)
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SS 17-78, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 17-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, AP 25
Image: 27 x 27 inches
Size: 35 in. ...
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1-90
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in New York, NY
1986-1992
PIXEL FIELD
In 1986, Nassos Daphnis was 71 years old when he booted up the computer for the first time and he was soon conversant enough with the machine’s capacity to use it fluently in his work. He was launched as a pioneer — one of the very first artist to adopt the resources of the new technology into the hitherto slow developing processes of paintings.
It was the winter of 1985. Nassos Daphnis was getting an idea down on paper for a new abstract work in his West Broadway studio. The idea was burning bright, but his work processes were painstaking, indeed finicky. He complained to his son, Demetri, about the endless frustration of being unable to render this Eureka! moment as swiftly as required. The son introduced the father to an Atari ST computer. Call this Eureka moment, Part II. Daphnis was seventy-one years old when he booted up a computer for the first time and he was soon conversant enough with the machine’s capacities to use it fluently in his work. He was launched as a pioneer — one of the veryfirst artists to adapt the resources of the new technology into the hitherto slow-developing processes of painting. Pixel Fields, a show of a body of work made between 1987 and 1992, which marks the repre-sentation of the Estate of Nassos Daphnis by the Richard Taittinger Gallery...
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SS 29-76
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 29-76
Year: 1976
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100, AP 30
Size: 33 x 37 in. (83.82 x 93.98 cm)
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SS 1-82, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 1-82
Year: 1982
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, PP 5, HC
Image: 28 x 23.5 inches
Size: 35...
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SS 7-78, Minimalist Screenprint by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 7-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 24 x 33 inches
Size: 32 x 40....
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SS 1-82, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 1-82
Year: 1982
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 22/120
Size: 35.75 x 30 in. (90.81 x 76.2 cm)
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SS 14-78, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 14-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, 25 AP
Size: 32 in. x 38 in. (81.28 cm x 9...
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SS 10-78, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 10-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, 25 AP
Size: 32 in. x 40.5 in. (81.28...
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S-2-78, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - )
Title: S-2-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125
Image: 19.5 x 17 inches
Size: 30 x 22 inches
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SS 12-78, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 12-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, 25 AP
Image Size: 24 x 33 inches
Size: 32 in. ...
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SS 27-76, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 27-76
Year: 1976
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100, AP 30
Size: 33 in. x 37 in. (83.82 c...
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SS 17-78, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 17-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, AP 25
Image: 27 x 27 inches
Size: 3...
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Nassos Daphnis was a Greek-born American abstract painter, sculptor and tree peony breeder.
Born, 1914, Greece - Died, 2010, Provincetown, MA
known for Hard-edge painting, Op art, Expressionism, Geometric abstraction
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Daphnis served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. During his service he was asked to put his skills as a painter to use and created camouflage for use on enormous military relief maps. It is speculated by some art critics that it was while painting camouflage that Daphnis developed the signature flatness later recognizable in his abstract geometric paintings.
While Daphnis is generally regarded as a self-taught artist, he did pursue some formal training. When Italy invaded Greece in 1940 and Greek War Relief was organized, all the Greek American artists in New York got together: "Constant, Vassos, Lekakis, Nassos Daphnis, everyone. Along with Chryssa, Theodoros Stamos and Peter Voulkos he is one of the best known artists of the Hellenic American Diaspora.Following his military service, Daphnis trained at the Art Students League of New York. From 1949-1951, Daphnis studied in Paris. From 1951-1952, he continued his studies at the Istituto Statale D'Arte in Firenze, Italy. In 1952 he returned again briefly to Paris for additional study.
Daphnis' artistic style evolved throughout his career. He began as a realist and following the war, moved on to biomorphic kinetic forms with a Surrealist influence.
From March 24-April 11, 1947, Daphnis had an eponymous solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery at 106 E 57th St, New York at which his biomorphic paintings were featured. The exhibition included both oil paintings and watercolors.
In the 1950s, Daphnis traveled back to Greece with the assistance of the G.I. Bill. While there he began to see the stark, clear light change his perception of the buildings and forms around him. Structures were simplified and became geometric planes of pure color. Following this trop, Daphnis developed his color-plane theory and focused on geometric abstraction with a restricted color palette of only black, white and primary colors. This became his signature style and these works are often characterized as being painted in the Hard-edge style of geometric abstraction. His style is frequently compared with Piet Mondrian; however, Daphnis saw Mondrian's approach as a jumping off point. Daphnis was also described as an abstract imagist, a term which arose from a 1961 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, called American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, in which he participated.
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1970s Abstract Geometric Nassos Daphnis Art
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Nassos Daphnis Hard Edged Geometric Abstract Minimalist Silkscreen Op Art Print
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Surfside, FL
Nassos Daphnis was a Greek-born American abstract painter, sculptor and tree peony breeder.
Born, 1914, Greece - Died, 2010, Provincetown, MA
known for Hard-edge painting, Op art, Expressionism, Geometric abstraction
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Daphnis served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. During his service he was asked to put his skills as a painter to use and created camouflage for use on enormous military relief maps. It is speculated by some art critics that it was while painting camouflage that Daphnis developed the signature flatness later recognizable in his abstract geometric paintings.
While Daphnis is generally regarded as a self-taught artist, he did pursue some formal training. When Italy invaded Greece in 1940 and Greek War...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Nassos Daphnis Art
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Screen
29-E-78, Geometric Abstract by Nassos Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - )
Title: 29-E-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: PP 2/5
Size: 30 in. x 35.5 in. (76.2 cm x 90.17 cm)
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1970s Minimalist Nassos Daphnis Art
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Screen
SS 19-78, Large Minimalist Silkscreen by Daphnis
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 19-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, 25 AP
Size: 32 in. x 50 in. (81.28 cm x 1...
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1970s Minimalist Nassos Daphnis Art
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Screen
SS-19-78 Minimalist Silkscreen
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 19-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, 25 AP
Size: 32 in. x 50 in. (81.28 cm x 1...
Category
1970s Minimalist Nassos Daphnis Art
Materials
Screen
SS 19-78
By Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 19-78
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, 25 AP
Size: 32 in. x 50 in. (81.28 cm x 1...
Category
1970s Minimalist Nassos Daphnis Art
Materials
Screen
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