Stelios Garipis

Prassinos’ transformative encounter with light

In 1958 celebrated French author Albert Camus extended an invitation to his close friend, the Greek-French painter Mario Prassinos, and his daughter, Catherine, to accompany him on a trip to Greece. Prassinos, though firmly embedded in the French artistic elite, would find in Greece a transformative encounter with light, color and atmosphere, which would profoundly shape his artistic vision.