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- 14/2/1929 (Creation)
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26.5 x 21 cm
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Polyxeni I. Dimara (née Tsimpouki) was a painter. She organised personal exhibitions and illustrated the edition of Ioannis Gryparis’s work Skaravaioi kai Terakotes (1928). Illustrations of her work have been published in Nea Estia, while her text on the painter Konstantinos Maleas was published in 1953 in the daily I Vradini.
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Handwritten letter by Polyxeni Dimara to Cavafy. The author asks to be sent a poetry collection of his and informs him that she is sending him a volume by I. Gryparis (Skaravaioi kai terrakotes), which she has illustrated herself. Small photo affixed at the top right of the recto. (Athens)
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Greek
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Writing in ink.
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Dimara, Polyxeni. “Letter by P. Dimara to Cavafy”. Letter, 14.02.1929. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0112 (710), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0112.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Dimara, Polyxeni (Authority)
- Gryparis, Ioannis N. (Subject)
- Tsimpoukis, Ioannis (Subject)
- Cavafy, C. P. (Subject)