Georgios Mavroidis (1912-2003) was a Greek painter. He was born in Piraeus in 1912, the son of Cypriot Gaston Mavroidis and Lefkaditian Zoe Theocharis. He studied law and political science at the University of Athens, where he met Yiannis Tsarouchis, with whom he maintained a friendly relationship. Although he showed an inclination towards painting from a young age, he remained self-taught. In 1946, he entered the Diplomatic Corps and traveled to Egypt the same year. There, he married Alexandra Thomaidi, with whom he had a daughter. In 1948, he began his exhibition activity by participating in the \"Arm\u00f3s\" exhibition and the 1st Panhellenic Exhibition at Zappeion, along with Lily Arlioti, Yiannis Mitarakis, Theophrastos Triantafyllidis, and others. In 1950, he was appointed General Secretary of the Greek Consulate in Paris, where he had the opportunity to study classical art, Renaissance, and later European painting, and he met significant Greek artists such as Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Andreas Embirikos, and in Antibes, he met Pablo Picasso. In 1959, when he was elected Professor of Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, a position he held until 1982, he resigned from the Diplomatic Corps.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oil painting on canvas by G. Mavroidis<\/p>\n
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Dimensions: 32 cm length, 42 cm height<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[25,26],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1968","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fine-art","product_cat-paintings","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n