Bird toward the Sky

Exhibition history

Constantin Andreou, Musée de Salonique, September 2004: listed in the FauveParis catalogue of 2 March 2015, lot 207. The original exhibition catalogue entry has not yet been inspected. A municipal bibliography identifies a September 2004 Thessaloniki Municipal Museum catalogue; this reference must not be conflated with the separate Teloglion publication of 2004.

Publication references

Andreou: Sculpture; Bas-reliefs en couleurs. Athens: Bastas Editions, 1999. ISBN 960-7418-39-5. Illustration and caption, p. 32: Oiseau vers le Ciel / Πουλί προς τον ουρανό; 1978; 174 × 52 × 48 (no unit stated in the caption). The unnumbered Greek and French technical note describes the book’s sculptures and reliefs as unique works in welded brass. Page 32 is verified from the book; the p. 23 citation in FauveParis’s 2015 catalogue is erroneous.

FauveParis, Quelles histoires !, auction catalogue, 2 March 2015, lot 207, printed p. 111 (PDF page 57), with a full view and detail; also illustrated in an interior display photograph at pp. 20–21. The entry identifies Oiseau vers le ciel, 1978, as a unique work in welded brass and gives H 174, L 52, P 48 cm. It acknowledges supplementary information from Jacques Magloire of the Association des amis d’Andreou. It also cites the September 2004 Constantin Andreou exhibition at the Musée de Salonique and its catalogue, p. 44; that exhibition catalogue entry has not been directly inspected. The auction appearance does not establish a completed sale. Original lot: https://www.fauveparis.com/lot/21/3096/ Catalogue: https://fauveparis.fmdata.fr/data/ventes_cataloguesPDF/fauveparis_quelleshistoires_2mars15.pdf

Piasa, 17 December 2014, lot 118, description preserved in Invaluable’s artist listing. It identifies Oiseau vers le ciel, 1978, as a unique work in welded brass, gives 174 × 52 × 48 cm excluding the base, and cites Bastas 1999, p. 32, and the September 2004 Musée de Salonique exhibition catalogue, p. 44. The original Piasa catalogue was not recovered. This is a secondary record, not evidence of a completed sale. The “excluding the base” qualification is attributed to this description; it is not specified in the Bastas caption. Source: https://www.invaluable.com/artist/andreou-constantin-q9jpxphq5l/sold-at-auction-prices/

Bibliothèque Constantin Andréou, La Ville-du-Bois, artist bibliography, version 1.3, September 2010, p. 1: lists a 103-page catalogue for the September 2004 exhibition at the Thessaloniki Municipal Museum. This corroborates the publication bibliographically; it does not independently verify this work’s inclusion or the cited p. 44. It must not be conflated with the separate Teloglion publication of 2004. Source: https://www.lavilledubois.fr/images/5-laville-DECOUVERTE/E2-Histoire-et-patrimoine/de_hi_Constantin-ANDREOU.pdf