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NIKOS HADJIKYRIAKOS - GHIKA
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika was born in Athens on 26 February 1906. From early youth he showed a serious inclination towards drawing and, while still at school, he took painting lessons from Constantinos Parthenis.
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika.
In 1922 he went to Paris, taking lessons in painting and drawing from R.
Bissière and D. Galanis at the Académie Ranson, while studying French literature and Aesthetics at the Sorbonne.
He first exhibited his work in Paris in 1923, at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Surindépendants, and afterwards contributed to many group exhibitions.
His first one-man exhibition took place at the Galerie Percier in Paris in 1927.
His first exhibition in Athens, held at the Strategopoulos Gallery in 1928, was shared with sculptor Michael Tombros.
In 1934, already a respected artist, he decided to leave Paris in order to settle in Athens. Between 1935 and 1937 he edited the periodical "To Trito