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Kostas Kampouropoulos – Barabbas

$23,000

Kostas Kampouropoulos (1939-2018)           
Barabbas
painted between 2007-2016
oil on canvas 
120 x 100 cm. 

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Description

Artist/Maker: Kostas Kampouropoulos (1939-2018)

Object/Materials and Techniques: Oil on canvas

Date: Painted between 2007-2016

Dimensions: H. 120 cm. x W. 100 cm.

Art style: Portraiture/Romantic elements with surrealistic expressionistic structures/Abstract art

Current Location: Private collection

Curator’s note: The portrait of the infamous Jewish outlaw Barabbas, in a

fictional moment of penitence, as he thinks of the Golgotha’s hill top,

where Jesus was crucified in his stead. This is an aspect of a penitent Barabbas, aware of his evil deeds, but yet pious towards the earthly end of Christ. Probably a

depiction of the notion that even evil men can sometimes be curved by

the goodness of others.