Background
Nikias Skapinakis was born in 1931, in Lisbon, Portugal, to a Greek father and Portuguese mother. He is a brother of Captain Andreas Ribeiro Skapinakis, Officer of the Military Order of Avis.
School of Fine Arts in Lisbon
Nikias Skapinakis was born in 1931, in Lisbon, Portugal, to a Greek father and Portuguese mother. He is a brother of Captain Andreas Ribeiro Skapinakis, Officer of the Military Order of Avis.
Nikias studied architecture, which he abandoned for painting, at the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, an activity he continues to develop to this day.
Nikias Skapinakis began exhibiting in 1948 at the General Exhibition of Plastic Arts and since then has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in various collective exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. In addition to oil painting, which is his dominant activity, he devoted himself to lithography, serigraphy, and book illustration. He performed lithographs for Psychoanalytic Congress of Romance Languages in 1968 and the fiftieth anniversary of the Bank Atlantic Portuguese in 1969. He also executed serigraphs for the Kompass Gallery in 1973.
Nikias is the author of one of the coffee panels "A Brasileira do Chiado" and participated in the execution of the commemorative panel on June 10, 1974. In 1963, he obtained the Malhoa Scholarship from the National Society of Fine Arts and in 1976 he was granted an allowance for research by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1985, the Center for Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, showed an anthological exhibition of his painting, completed with a retrospective of his graphic work and gouaches at the National Society of Fine Arts in the same year.
In 1993 Skapinakis presented in Galveias Palace, an anthology of drawings made between 1985 and 1993. Three years later, the Museu do Chiado organized the exhibition of his works entitled "For the Study of Melancholy in Portugal, Retrospective of Portraits, 1955 - 1974." In 2000, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Serralves Foundation presented the anthological exhibition "Prospectiva 1966 - 2000." On June 9, 2006, he was made Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada.
In 2009, Nikias held the exhibition "Drawing in black and white and color" at the Centro Cultural de Cascais, covering his work between 1958 and 2009. He also painted "Landscape-Portuguese Flag", allusive to the National Flag and integrated into the Commemorations of the Centenary of the Republic. In 2012, the Berardo Collection Museum presented his anthological exhibition "Present and Past, 2012-1950." He has also published texts of critical intervention in several newspapers and magazines. He currently lives and works in Lisbon.
Quintais de Lisboa
Botequim
Retrato dos criticos
Paisagem da Trafaria
Objecto não Identificado - XLII
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Estátua de Fernando Pessoa Autor Desconhecido
Encontro de Natália Correia com Fernanda Botelho e Maria João Pires
Pimentão vermelho
Retrato de Almada Negreiros
Delacroix no 25 de Abril em Atenas
A Las Cinco en Punto de la Tarde
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Paisagem - Bandeira Portuguesa
