Georges Yatridès

During the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, they moved to France in 1917.

His father was of Greek heritage, born in the United States, and studied in France.

His paternal grandfather was a Christian Orthodox Deacon who worked as a pastor in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

His great-grandfather was a Christian Orthodox Archimandrite.

Over the course of his lifetime, he has lived in France and the United States.

Georges Yatridès (March 5, 1931 — November 28, 2019) was a French painter.

His work is held in various North American private collections, and has been featured in retrospectives.

Georges Yatridès was born in 1931 in Grenoble, France.

His parents were Greek.

In 1954 he exhibited paintings produced from 1945 to 1949 in Vichy.

In 1956, his work was shown in Paris at Madame Chastenet de Gery's Gallerie des Voyelles.

A representative of the International Galleries of Chicago was contracted to purchase Yatridès's works, which were sold to private collectors in Canada and the United States.

From 1957 to 1965, he held solo exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Switzerland, Great Britain and Greece, where his works were acquired by private collections and a museum.

One solo exhibit was at the Contemporary French Masters in Chicago in 1959.

Yatridès was described by writer Vanessa Fize as "a great contemporary painter, driven by his passion for light and science".

Two works sold through the Chicago firm were Daybreak in Port and Landscape, both made in 1960.

His work had elements of graphic art in the 1960s.

The following decade he studied in Grenoble at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) to research light and color.

As his career progressed he explored use of different media and materials.

Arthur Conte suggests that Yatridès' Adolescent and Child canvas painted in 1963 has a slab similar to that of Kubrick.

Art critics have suggested there are similarities between the monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and a recurring monolith motif in the artwork of Yatridès.

Yatridès made the large compositions that would characterize his art in the 1970s.

Events from the 1980s include:

In 1981, he exhibited paintings inspired by the Bible in three crypts in the Sacré-Cœur in Paris.

On 17 January 1996, "Yatrides et son siècle" council was established to protect the public, civil and professional interests of Yatridès's works.

The organization is composed of "senior officials" (tax administration director, police security officers, doctors).

Sacha Bourmeyster, a semiology specialist, states that the Yatridès slab communicates supernatural life in a manner similar to that in 2001.

Similarities between Yatridès' art and Kubrick's monolith have also been noted on CyberArchi, an on-line French architecture magazine.

Selected works of Yatridès are:

Yatrides died on November 28, 2019, in Saint-Marcellin, Isère, France.