Sotiris René Sidiropoulos

Sotiris René Sidiropoulos (born in 1977 in Paris) is a French painter and sculptor.

His father, iconographe, sculptor, Doctor of philosophy and former student of Philopoemen Constantinidi or Caracosta and Costas Valsamis, inculcates to him the rudiments of the profession of iconographe and sculptor.

Their first family workshop of iconography and sculpture was created in 1848 in Cappadocia.

In his youth, he was the student of the painters Philopoemen Constantinidi and Zoe Valsamis.

He was the student also of the sculptor Costas Valsamis, (alumnus of Ossip Zadkine). He studied the works of Pablo Picasso which are an inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration. He studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

• Icons for the City of the Vatican.
• Portrait of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
• Portrait of Her Majesty the Queen Sophie of Spain, Palace of Zarzuela, Madrid, Spain.
• Portrait of Her Majesty the Queen Silvia of Sweden, Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Portrait of HRH the Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Posthumous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada.
• Painting of the Cuban and her child, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba.
• Portrait of Charlotte Casiraghi of Monaco, Villa Paloma, New National Museum of Monaco, Principality of Monaco.
• Portrait of Her Royal Highness the Josephine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg.