Mario Prassinos was born in 1916 in Istanbul. In 1922 the Greeks of Turkey leave the country to flee persecutions and its family settles in France. He attends the slides of the theatre de l’atelier (Charles Dullin), which gives him the taste of the theatre. He meets then, at Man Ray, the surrealist poets, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rene Char then the painters max Ernst, El Salvador Dali, Hans Arp and Marcel Duchamp. Since 1936 Mario Prassinos moves away from surrealism and the Billiet gallery present in 1938 her first personal exposure, prefaced by Rene Char. Volunteer during the war, he is wounded and receives the Military Cross. In 1942 it binds with Raymond Queneau and collaborates with the editions of the NRF. Between 1943 and 1945 it still meets Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre (of which it illustrates the Wall), Jean Lescure and Gaston Bachelard. Mario Prassinos creates in 1947 her first costumes for a set of Paul Claudel gone up by Jean Vilar (first Festival of Avignon). He meets the painter Alberto Magnelli and meets Myriam Prevot, future director of the Gallery of France where he exposes thereafter. He receives in 1949 its French naturalization. He realizes starting from 1951 his first tapestries. In 1958, after a cruising with Albert Camus and Michel Gallimard, he accomplishes a long stay in the island of Spetses, in Greece, which is the source of a renewal of his painting, by the pointillism by projection.. From 1959 to 1964 Prassinos continues to create decorations and costumes for Jean Vilar. In 1985, Prassinos works with 11 Paintings of the Torment for the vault Notre-Dame de pitié in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. "At one time when the practice of torture increases in the world it appeared to me that this old, this horrible torment to which the silly thing of the men condemned Christ was worth a protest", he writes. There are exposed a hundred of his pieces , realized since 1958 and made donation to the State. Mario Prassinos died in her house of Eygalières on October 23, 1985.