Nassophorea

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nassos Daphnis (b. July 23, 1914 Krokeai, Greece - d. Nov 23, 2010 Provincetown, Massachusetts) was a Greek born American abstract painter and tree peony breeder. Originally a florist he brought the sensitivity he cultivated in that profession as well as a profound sense of natural geometry to his new discipline, painting. As a painter Daphnis was considered to have worked in the Hard-edge and Geometric abstraction style looking back towards the opus of Piet Mondrian. He was also categorized as an abstract imagist a term which arose from a 1961 exhibition in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York called American Abstract Expressionists. For many years his artwork was represented by the Leo Castelli Gallery and in then in his later years by the Anita Shapolsky Gallery.