Η Κοιμωμένη του Χαλεπά. The Sleeping Girl by Chalepas (Ε)

Sculpture of a sleeping woman at the
 First Cemetery of Athens

Giannoulis Chalepas is for Modern Greek sculpture a  great tragic myth.
 The talented young artist with the tremendous recognition, the tragic fate, the madness and the solitariness.
 Last, the discovery of the old Giannoulis, his comeback, with his extraordinary works of the final years, and the acclaim.
 Dithyramb critiques of his Sleeping Girl and emotion over his tragic fate. This is Chalepas for Greeks as a whole, a figure
 from a novel with attributes of a saint, who continues to move specialists, artists as well as the man in the street.
 He died in September 1938.

 

Ένα από τα πιο ονομαστά γλυπτά του Γιαννούλη Χαλεπά,
 η Κοιμωμένη, στον τάφο της Σοφίας Αφεντάκη στο
 Α' Νεκροταφείο Αθηνών