GREECE 1945 LARGE LOT OF 84 POSTAL CARDS POSTAL STATIONARIES CARTES POSTALES WITH IMPRINTED 200 DRACHMAS ALLEGORY OF GLORY ON CREAM PAPER UNUSED VERY FINE SCARCE 

Offered is a large lot of 84 postal stationaries from Greece, 1945, with imprinted a 200 drachmas stamp on cream paper. The stamp is an allegory of Glory, i.e. “The Glory of Psara” by painter Nikolaos Gyzis. Size of the postal stationaries is 9 cm X 14 cm (3.5 in. X 5.5 in.). They are all unused and in very fine condition. The postal stationaries pictured are the one you will receive, so please examine all pictures carefully. 

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Nikolaos Gyzis, 1898 "The Glory of Psara" 

The glory (Doxa), dressed with a white chiton, records the names of the heroes after the destruction of Psara. Nikolaos Gyzis was inspired by the epigram of the poet Dionysios Solomos "The Destruction of Psara" written in 1825 on the occasion of the historic event of the destruction of Psara by the Turks in 1924. The figure of the personified Glory (Doxa) honors the dead Greeks in a landscape of utter destruction.

Nikolaos Gyzis (1842–1901) 

Nikolaos Gyzis is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonham’s in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He was the major representative of the Munich School, the major 19th-century Greek art movement. His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany, and elsewhere. Gyzis' painting “Glory of Psara” was depicted on the 1945 stamp series “Glory” and “The Secret School” was depicted on the reverse of the Greek 200 drachmas banknote of 1996. The Athenian neighborhood Gyzi is named after him