Small Bird

FauveParis, Arts Moderne & Contemporain - Photographie & Livres D’art - Design, 30 September 2023, lot 5 (reported by the Hellenic Diaspora Foundation, record 7091).

Hellenic Diaspora Foundation, online collection catalogue, Petit Oiseau, record 7091. Institution-reported collection; object photograph compared with the Archive record. Checked 8 September 2026: https://www.hellenicdiaspora.org/home/portfolio-item/constantin-andreou-7091/

The institutional record describes a unique piece, dated 1960, and gives 27 × 32 × 8 cm. Its English version says “Soldered brass”; its Greek version says “Συγκολλημένος μπρούντζος” (welded bronze). The Archive retains Bronze and 33 × 25 × 19 cm; these source differences remain unresolved. The same institutional record lists the following bibliography: Andreou, sculpture. (2004) Thessaloniki: Teloglion Foundation. ISBN: 960-87805-1-9. This bibliography is cited from the institutional record; the relevant artwork pages have not been examined directly. Institutional source: https://www.hellenicdiaspora.org/home/en/portfolio-item/constantin-andreou-7091/

Sapfo A. Mortaki, Η καλλιτεχνική μετανάστευση στην Ελλάδα: από τον 19ο στον 20ό αιώνα (1870–1970): η περίπτωση του Κωνσταντίνου Ανδρέου. Doctoral thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2010. Appendix, p. 74, photographic sculpture catalogue, no. 54. Caption title: “Μικρό πουλί, Petit Oiseau”. The caption dates the illustrated work to 1960. Dimensions as printed: 33x25x19. https://freader.ekt.gr/eadd/index.php?doc=26022&lang=el#p=463