Mario PRASSINOS Pèretextat n° 9 bis, 1973 Oil on canvas. Signed upper right. Dated and titled on the back. 130 x 162 cm Provenance : Piasa sale, Paris, November 30, 2016, no. 184. Exhibitions : - Mario Prassinos, Château de Simiane, Valréas, July - September 1978 (label on stretcher). - Prassinos - Rétrospective de l'œuvre peint et dessiné, Cloître Saint-Louis, Aix-en-Provence, published by Présence contemporaine, July 12 - August 28, 1983 (label on frame). - Mario Prassinos, Musée d'Ixelles, April 22 - June 12, 1988 (label on stretcher). - Mario Prassinos, Les Prétextats, May 11 - June 30 1995, Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, catalog no. 30, reproduced p. 13 (label on stretcher). Bibliography: Mario Prassinos, Arles, Édition Actes Sud, 2005, reproduced p. 185.