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This is the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition “Lila de Nobili – Yannis Tsarouchis. An encounter”, that was held at the Benaki Museum, in cooperation with the Tsarouchis Foundation (4 July-23 September 2002), as a tribute to the great set and costume designer and painter Lila de Nobili (1916-2002). Lila de Nobili associated her name with theatrical and operatic works that left their mark on the aesthetics of stage design in postwar Europe. Her meeting with Yannis Tsarouchis during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly during the years of his self-exile in France, evolved into a close and lifelong friendship, and into an on-going dialogue about the essence of painting and art more generally. In this book more than 200 works by Lila de Nobili have been gathered together from the Yannis Tsarouchis Museum and private collections, as well as samples of her work in the theatre and the opera (models for sets, costume designs, etc.) and of her skill as a painter (illustrations of books, impressions of Italy, etc.). At the same time works by Yannis Tsarouchis are presented that demonstrate the artistic kinship and common concerns of the two artists.

Translation: Alexandra Doumas, Dafni Kapsampeli