Loustas Fine Art Estate

Kostas Loustas was born in Athens and brought up in Florina (northwest of Greece), a town with a rich artistic and cultural heritage. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1953-8) with Yiannis Moralis being amongst his teachers and mentors. He first received international acclaim in New York during the early 1960s where he lived and worked for several years. His solo and group exhibitions of this period include those at Saldinger, Firehouse, Salvo Art, Chase, Chevance and Paollilo galleries in New York, and Zaydler Gallery in London. His collaboration with Galerie Internationale on Madison Avenue in New York, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1972, continued for several years following his permanent return to Thessaloniki, Greece in the early 1980s.