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Mario Prassinos (1916–1985) was a French artist and illustrator of Greek origin.
He was born in Istanbul (Constantinople) on 30 July 1916, son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos, and moved to France with his family in 1922. His sister Gisèle Prassinos (born 1920) is a surrealist writer.
His first exhibition took place in 1938 at the Galerie Pierre Vorms. That same year he married Yolande Borelly. His daughter Catherine Prassinos was born in 1946.
During the period 1942 to 1950 he met Raymond Queneau and Albert Camus and produced work for Editions Gallimard.
He died on 23 October 1985.
Works on Mario Prassinos
- Prassinos, Arbres et bouquets, préface de Myriam Prévot, Galerie de France, Paris, 1960.
- Jean-Louis Ferrier, Prassinos, Le Musée de Poche, Paris, Éditions Georges Fall, 1962.
- Mario Prassinos, peintures et dessins récents, textes de Mario Prassinos, Raymond Queneau, François Nourissier, René Char, Albert Camus, Marc Alyn, Jean-Louis Ferrier, Pierre Seghers, Jean Boissieu, Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Jean Lescure, Pierre Cabanne, Gisèle Prassinos et Pierre Emmanuel, Paris, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, 1980.
- Prassinos, textes de Jean-Louis Ferrier, Gisèle Prassinos et Mario Prassinos, entretien avec Mario Prassinos, Aix-en-Provence, Présence contemporaine, 1983, 144 p. (ISBN 2-904013-04-0).
- Mario Prassinos, Levallois-Perret, Les amis de Valentin Brû [Raymond Queneau], n° 28-29, 1984 [Raymond Queneau et Mario Prassinos].
- Hélène Parmelin, Les Peintres de Jean Vilar : Calder, Chastel, Gischia, Jacno, Lagrange, Manessier, Pignon, Prassinos et Singier, Fondation Jean Vilar, Avignon, 1984.
- La donation Mario Prassinos (catalogue raisonné), Catherine Prassinos et Thierry Rye, préface de Pierre Cabanne, Saint-Rémy de Provence, FMP Donation Mario Prassinos, 1990, 158 p. (ISBN 2-9504357-0-X).
- Lydia Harambourg, Mario Prassinos, dans L'École de Paris 1945-1965, Dictionnaire des peintres, Neuchâtel, Ides et Calendes, 1993, (ISBN 2-8258-0048-1).
- Correspondance d'Henri Parisot avec Mario et Gisèle Prassinos, 1933-1938, Prassinos Catherine, Rye Thierry (éd.), Joelle Losfeld, 2003, 212 p. (ISBN 2-84412-162-4).
- Monographie Mario Prassinos, peinture et dessin, préface de François Nourissier, Catherine Prassinos (expert de l'Union Française des Experts, UFE) et Thierry Rye (éd.), Actes Sud, 2005, 342 p. (ISBN 2-7427-4366-9).
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Categories:- 1916 births
- 1985 deaths
- People from Istanbul
- French painters
- Greek painters
- Abstract painters
- French illustrators
- Greek illustrators
- Greek emigrants to France
- French painter, 20th century birth stubs
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