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Xirokostas Ioannis

Date of birth: 01-01-1890
Date of death: 01-01-1967
Art Works 16

BIOGRAPHY

He was an artist who was interested in painting since his childhood, while he was painting the walls of his family house.
Before even finish his high school studies, he migrated in United States and travelled in various cities, and he had systematicaly studied drawing and painting at the Corcoran Art School. Afterwards he worked mainly in New York, where he was installed and devoted to painting. His work is distinguished for a personal effort to combine abstract types and descriptive subjects, geometric and expressionistic elements. His work is imposed through his participation in a great number of exhibitions in America and Europe as well as in Greece.