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Artwork

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Painting of lady in green. Bottom of the frame reads "Iris Papamarkou 1925-1988"
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Canvas painting of a tan house with arches and an orange roof. There are four trees in front of the house with green leaves.
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This is a colored painting of three women doing laundry in a river or creek. In the background is a large tree and underneath the tree there are two of the women kneeling over the water doing their work. The focus of the painting is the third woman, who is standing with her feet in the water holding up her skirt with one hand and holding her basket of laundry in the other. In the bottom right hand corner is the artist's signature. The painting is in a wooden, gold embellished frame with no hanging mechanism on the back.
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A painting on a piece of black cardstock. The painting show a woman wearing a white dress with tan or cream-colored stripes. The hem is black with red lines and designs. Over the dress, she is wearing a long, sleeveless, red vest. The vest is tied with a gold-colored sash with two decorative round pieces on the front. She is also wearing a black apron with a green tie and a pattern of green vines with red flowers. Across her chest, connecting the two sides of the vest, are three rows of gold bangles. She is wearing a red cap on her head. Over this, she is wearing a white shawl that goes over her head and across her shoulders. She is holding a long distaff with white wool in ther right hand, while her right hand is hold the yarn, with a spindle hanging at her side. She is wearing black slippers on her feet. At the bottom left of the painting is the artists signature in Greek, which reads "L. Laskaris" and the year 1958. At the bottom right is the word "Euboea" in Greek and then, below this, "Greec-Euboea" in English. The black cardstock is mounted on a larger, thicker rectangle of cream-colored cardstock.
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Print
A color print of a woman wearing a colorful costume. The woman is wearing a white, ankle-length dress with long, wide sleeves. The sleeves and bottom of the dress have intricate designs of blue, pink, and yellow. She is wearing a black apron tied around her waist and hanging down the front to her calves. The apron has a a green vine with white and red flowers, and there is lace trim around the edge. The woman is also wearing a pink vest, with large arm holes, that goes down to her hips. She is wearing a golden, jewelled collar and several more golden chains across her chest. She is wearing a white scarf on her head, with bangles hanging over her forehead. On her feet are white stockings and red shoes. Next to the right foot is a signature in Greek that says "A. Tarsouli". Below the image is the number "4" and the name "Mesogeion" in both Greek and French.
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A color print of a woman wearing a Greek costume. She is wearing a white shirt with long sleeves and a lacy color and cuffs. Over this, she is wearing a low cut, red, long-sleeved jacket, with gold embroidery on the front and near the wrists. Pieces of flowing material decorated with roses hang from each wrist. She is wearing a wide, ankle-length pleated skirt of an indeterminate shade. The skirt is made of the same rose-decorated material as the pieces hanging from her wrists. On her chest is a gold broach with a green stone. On her head is a red cap with a long tassel. The cord of the tassel is gold and red, while the skirt is blue. Below the picture is a signature in Greek that says "A. Tarsouli". Printed below this is the number "11" and the words Missolonghi, Queen Amalia style in Greek and French.
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A color print of a woman wearing a Greek costume. She is wearing an ankle-length white skirt with a lacy hem and flowers embroidered around the bottom. Over this she is wearing a shorter, dark pleated skirt. On top, she is wearing a red jacked with gold embroidery at the sleeves and shoulders. There are several rows of gold bangles across her chest. A long, gold-embroidered, red apron is tied around her waist. She has a white scarf wrapped around her head, with gold bangles framing her face. Below the picture is a signature in Greek that says "A. Tarsouli". Printed below this is the number "11" and the words Missolonghi, Queen Amalia style in Greek and French.
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This is a colored oil painting depicting a Cretan man in profile. The man appears to be middle-aged. He is bearded, wearing a cap of some kind, a green collared shirt, blue vest and has a red bag slung over his shoulder. The painting is in an ornately embellished gold and bronze frame.
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Oil painting on canvas depicting 6 maidens(a group of 2 in the far right, a group of 3 in the center and a single maiden pouring liquid) and 1 male on the left next to white horse. The male is Backus or Dionysus, God of wine. The background consists of mountains and trees and a very colorful landscape. The female holding the arrow is Diana, Goddess of the Hunt.
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This is a colorful painting of Jesus' profile as he wears the crown of thorns. The painting is mostly red and gold, with some additional blues, browns and yellows. In the bottom right hand corner is the artist's signature. The painting is in a gold frame, matted on a white background, with a hanging wire on the back.
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This is brilliantly colored painting. The painting seems to be abstract, with lots of black/dark brown lines accompanied by vibrant colors. The painting is matted on a white background in a gold frame.
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This is a black and white abstract painting. The piece is composed entirely of geometric shapes and lines. The left side of the painting is sectioned off vertically into three rectangles. The center of the piece has eleven lines running vertically and the right side is divided into varying shapes with a triangle and square floating amongst them. The piece is in a very simple white, wooden frame.
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This is painting of a Grecian warrior with his back towards the viewer. He is wearing what looks to be religious robes but in his hands he holds a shield and spear and is wearing a helmet. The painting has a decorative silver and blue border, with ripped edges places in a light wooden frame with a hanging wire attached to the back.
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This a painting of Rose Sirious Kundanis from the chest up. She has short gray hair, glasses, large diamond earrings, three-strand pearl necklace and a broach on her blouse. The painting is in a gold finished wooden frame.
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This is a painting of an George Kundanis from the chest up. He is wearing a suit and tie. He has a thick mustache, wire rimmed glasses and is balding slightly. The painting is in a gold frame, with cut outs in the corners.
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This is large colored painting of a seated woman. She is elderly and wearing a blue button-up blouse and a brown skirt with her hands folded in her lap. The background is a tallow color. The painting in matted on light gray background in a yellow, wooden frame with a hanging wire attached to the back.
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Large oil on canvas. 4 figures (1 religous figure at table, 1 injured solider) Exterior scene at building facade. Individuals said to be planning the Greek Revolution.
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An oil painting by Andreas Kodros made in 1994. The bottom is a tan/pink colored ground with rocks of the same color on the edge. In the middle of the rocks is a dead tree that has two roots on the ground and then has the trunk and a few branches off of that. The water behind the rocks is a dark blue and gray color that meets with the sky which is almost all grey clouds except the top left corner where there is a little blue sky and white clouds.
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An oil painting by Andreas Kodros made in 1994. The top is a light blue sky and there are a few green hills around the middle of the picture. In front of the green hills on the left side are tan colored hills or rock. There is a small patch of green grass and shrubs between the tan hills and the large tree in front. The tree is brown with white to add more color and the tree is very large that it goes to the top of t he painting and goes to the middle of the painting with its branches. In the bottom left corner there are tan rocks and ground. On the right side there is some green grass between the green hills and rocks. The bottom right corner has large tan colored rocks.
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A painting by Andreas Kodros from 1995. There are four objects on a yellow colored table that goes half way up the painting and the top half is a white wall. The bowl is in the front and to the left, it is green on the outside and pink/red on the inside. On the outside towards the bottom of the bowl is a thick dark green line and above that there is a smaller dark green line and another above that. Inside the bowl there is a thick dark red line towards the top with a thinner line underneath it. To the right of the bowl is a purple bottle that has two dark purple lines by the neck of the bottle. It is a shorter and wider bottle than the one behind and to the left of it. That bottle is taller and is a yellow color with a white square and rectangle by the neck to make it have a shine. On the other side of the puple bottle is a blue container used for coffee. It is tall like the yellow bottle but it has a cap on it and a handle off to the side. It also has a white rectangle on it to show a shine.
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Framed print with beautiful vibrant colors depicting a battle between the Greeks and the Bulgarians. The print shows that the Greek fores are driving against the Bulgarians and defeating them. The landscape of the print shows that thre are mountains in the background that are taken over by the Greeks. On the mountains/hills there are Greek flags and small figures of soliders. In the sky above them it looks like there are either fireworks going off or explosions. The sky is blue and where the fireworks/explosions are they are yellow, orange, and red surrounded by a cloud of white. The rest of the sky is an robin egg blue. The hills behind the main focus of the picture are filled with colors of greens, browns, yellows, oranges, blues, purple, and pink. This seems to add definition to the landscape. In what seems to be a valley there is a town where the Greek flag is flying. There are many buildings that are painted white and pink with red roofs. Around the town and across the mountain range behind the fighting there are many trees. The tres are a deep brown, gren, and black. The main part of the print shows the Greeks charging and beating the Bulgarians. The enitre bottom portion of the picture and the middle and right side show the defeated Bulgarian military. There are men being bayonetted by the Greeks, men that are fleeing, and men that are lying on the ground and on top of each other either dead or injured. On the far right side there is an explosion which is sending debris into the air. The explosion is orange, yellow, and white. There are some Bulgarians who seem to be surrendering while others seem to be fighting. The Bulgarian men around it are sheilding themselves from the impact. To show the defeat of the Bulgarians, the Bulgarian flag is on the ground being held by an incapacitated solider. The Bulgarians are wearing green uniforms with red and gold embelishments. The Greek army is on the left side of the picture and wraps around above the Bulgarian army to the other side of the picture. They are all either in firing lines shooting at the Bulgarians or chasing them. There are several Greek soliders on the far left who have their swords and bayonetts out and are attacking and killing the Bulgarian soliders. In between the two opposing armies there are rocks/bolders that are acting as a boundary between the two sides. There are severl Greeks standing on them taking shots down at the Bulgarians. The rocks are shades of gray, brown, black, purple, orange, yellow, pink, blue, and green. The ground is made up of the shades white, gray, brown, black, purple, orange, yellow, pink, blue, and green. The Greek military uniforms are brown with gold and red embelishments. At the bottom the title is in Greek and is "The First Victory of the Greeks and the Panic of the Bulgarians in Berovan 19 June 1913." The print was published in Athens.
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Picture
Charcoal Pencil portrait of Nikos Kazantzakis by Ioanna Kostopoulou. The portrait is drawn in profile with NK holding a pipe to his mouth with his right hand. The figure is composed with a tan base on which dark charcoal details have been scetched and shaded and thick white highlights are used to accent the shading. He is set against a black background with abstract/unintelligible writing in brown. the black area around him is slightly darking implying a shadow. The picture is set in a thick gold painted wood frame. On the bottom of the frame two plaques idnetify the figure as "Nikos Kazantzakis." In the bottom right hand corner the artist signed their name "Ioanna Kostakopoyloy.
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Painting, Watercolor. "Hasapiko" by William 'Bill' Papas. Depiction of two man performing "The Butchers Dance". Man on the right depicted with a hat, moustache and holding a red rosary. Man on the left depicted with a cigerette, moustache and body is incomplete. Arms around eachother shoulders, with both feet off the ground. Original sketch marks visable through the paint. No visable damage. Appears unfinished, however research reveals Papas left areas unpainted intentionally.
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Oil on Canvas portrait of Elias Emanuel Delligiannis 'Louis Callas'. A WWI fighter pilot of Greek-American decent. Portrait is a half-portrait. Sitter is wearing a navy blue suit, with a blue tie, with red dots. Wears a small pin on his left lapel. Artist's signature visable next to the right shoulder of sitter, in orange paint. Sitting sports a moustache and glasses.
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This oil painting depicts two women in a room. One is sitting on a bed the other is bending down by the fire. There are various pots and pans hanging on the wall by the fireplace. There is an open window letting in light at the head of the bed. The floor of the room is wooden with a small red carpet. The decorative wooden frame is painted gold. The matting is an off-white material. There is a metal wire hanger attached to the back of the frame. "82797 Pappas, Husa, Fine Sand Panel" written on pencil on back of frame. Dimensions: 40 x 56.375 x 2.5. The artist signed the bottom right of the canvas "B. S(rest of signature is illegible)
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The oil painting depicts an old, bearded priest holding a cup and saucer looking over a young boy reading a book. The priest is wearing a dark blue/green hat. The boy is wearing a dark red hat. They are sitting in a room with a coble stone floor, a small wooden cabinet off to the right side, and an entry way to another room in the right background. The decorative wooden frame is painted gold. The matting is a off-white material. "82798 Pappas" is written in pencil on the back of the frame. The artist signed the bottom right of the canvas "T. Hvlwvidrs? Dimensions: 39.875 X 32.125 x 2.5.
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Still life painting, no frame. Done on canvas. The background/wall is done in a cream/beige color, vertical and V-shaped brush strokes. The table, which starts in the middle of the painting is in a brown color, but also has a little bit of a wash to look like wood. There is a beige table cloth that is in the middle of the table and draping off the front side. Sitting on the cloth is a light brown vase/jug. It has a thinner base and widens slightly right before the neck. The neck is very tall and thin with a slightly wider opening. There is a handle that is attached to the neck and the top of the base. There is also something that looks like a little spout that is coming out from the vase about an inch down from the neck. There are four oranges that circle the right side of the jug, circling half. next to the oranges there is a white plate with two lemons on it. To the left of the jug there is another orange sitting about an inch and a half away. Next to the orange is a bundle of bananas, yellow with a little bit of green on the tips and some brushes of brown. In front of the banana is a red apple. Next to the banana there is half an orange; the other half is cut off by the edge of the painting. In the bottom left corner there is the name "V.Gianakopulos." There is no frame to this painting, the canvas is nailed to four planks of wood. There are twenty six nails in total circling the boarder.
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Large rectangular landscape painting. The ground of the landscape is done with multiple colors in short strokes: yellow, red, green, blue and purple. The main portion on the painting is set on a hill looking over a lake. On the hill there are three trees. Two of them have thin trunks and are set about five inches from another. Colored with red, light blue and white. The leaves of the tree are colored with bits of yellow, light green, and forest green. The leaves on the tops of the tree come together in the middle making it look like one big tree top. The third tree is place a little more forward than the other trees. Its trunk splits into two. The coloring is similar to the other two but has more white and light blue than red. The right trunk is taller than the other and leaning to the right. It has three distinc large branches coming from it. The left trunk is about two inches shorter than the right and has four branches coming from it, all towards the top of the tree. Like the previous ones the leaves also have a combination of light to darker green, but this tree has a little bit of purple in the leaves as well. Behind the third tree and going to the right edge of the painting is a large green bush, about eight inches tall and fifteen inches wide. The rest of the view from behind the tree is of the lake. The rest of the ground curves around the lake. There is another set of bushes about six inches from the bottom of the painting. About another five inches up from the bushes is the start if a set of mountains. They are in the color light blue, with a light wash of pink in it. The first mountain, going from left to right, is half covered by the frame. The one next to that is also half covered by one of the trees described before. The rest of the mountain set does not pop up until we get past the larger of the tree. Here there are three more, set one in front of the other. The ski itself is two toned, there color that comes right above the mountains is more of a greenish color and then shades into a light blue and than toward the top middle, shades into a darker blue. In the bottom left corner of the painting, done in dark blue, is the signiture "V.Scholomiti" The frame is a light wood that has been painted gold. There is some scratching and ware on the frame so the light wood under the paint is showing through. The back of the painting is that light wood. There is are four connected long planks of wood that are used to pull the canvas over. There are four metal latches that are on each side holding the canvas to the wood planks. On the left corner of the top plank there is a logo etched into the wood. It is of a paint palette with a compass set in front of it, standing upwards. On the palette reads "anco bilt" and under it reads "glendale n" and about an inch away from the logo is the number "32" There are two metal hooks on each side of the painting with a metal wire connecting them so the painting is able to be hung.
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Large painting of Asian coastal town. It is multicolored. The homes are set up on a hill, all square or rectangle and done in three dimension. Most of the houses done have roofs, but are just blocks done in different colors, for example one home has orange for the front wall, but green for the side. Another has a light pink at the front and a darker peach for the side. The few houses that do have roofs also are multi color. For example one has an orange roof, but turquoise walls. Another has a pink roof but light blue walls and another with a orange roof and yellow walls. There is a set of mountains on each side of the painting, behind the houses. There is a set of two on the left side of the painting, one slightly in front the other. The other is on the right side of the painting, also behind the bunch of homes, there is only one mountain in this case and is just barely visible on its left side. In between the homes there are dark green trees and bushes. Moving down from the houses there is a small beach, just about half an inch wide and painted with dark orange and a little hint of green. After the beach the rest of the painting there is just water. In the water are a number of different types of boats. On the left, closest to the beach is a very small sail boat; it is lime green with a very small white sail in the very center of it, no persons are on it. Also close to the beach, about four or five inches away from the previous, there is a small fishing boat; it is orange with a white covering over the front portion of it. Farther from the beach, still towards the left side of the painting, is a long wooden, gondola like, boat, painted in the color green. It also has a person standing on the back half of it, on the stem. He or she is holding onto the oar which is painted black and very thin. It is resting on the back of the boat. The person is dressed on in all purple: Long pants, Long sleeve shirt with a high neck line. They also have a straw like hat on, it is cover most of the face. They have slightly tanned skin, and a little bit of red on the middle of the face. They are not wearing shoes. Farther to the right of this boat there are three junk ships. The first is the closet one to the beach and set slightly behind one of the other ships. It has a green hull and white sails with four horizontal black lines going though them. Slightly in front of that ship is the second junk ship, a red hull and white sails. It also has four black horizontal lines going across it, but also has two parallel lines moving slightly diagonal and downwards from the top of the sail. About two inches away from that ship is the last of the junk ships. It is much larger than the others and has three sails instead of just one. The hull of the ship is brown. The first of the sails that is set towards the front of the ship is painted yellow with the four horizontal lines going across it. The next sail is the largest and starts at the center of the ship, but extends slightly past the back of it. It is orange , with six horizontal lines going across it. There is a brown line, made to be rope, that is attached to the hull of the ship and connects to the top, middle of the sail. The third sail, and the smallest, is white in color, sits at the very end of the ship and overlaps the orange sail. Also has four horizontal lines painted across it. The water is painted a dark blue, but around each of the ships, there is a reflection in the water that picks up the colors of the sails. In the bottom left corner there is the signiture, "V.G.Scholomiti" The frame is painted gold with a hint of orange. There are multiple cut outs surrounding the boarder, it is a repetitive pattern. In the center there is a heart shape with crescent shapes next to it, pointing inwards. About two and a half inches away is a set of crescents, facing back to back, the shapes are resting on one another. The next patter in another pair of crescent shapes, another two and a half inches away from the other patter. They are facing each other, but there is about a two inch gap in between them. This pattern is on each side of the frame. Under this boarder pattern there is another, about an inch below, on a raised surface. The raised portion is rounded, about nine inches long, then pinched in and then continues. On each nine inch piece there is a carved image. It looks like a set of wings with a set of legs/feet next to it and then something that looks like a scaled body, no head or arms. There are fourteen of these images. The back of the frame is plain light wood. With four long planks attached to hold the canvas in place. There are four, one on each side, metal latches that hook around the planks and multiple nails holding the canvas to the planks. On the top and bottom plank, in the very center, there is a black stamp, the logo that is on it is unreadable, but there are words next to it that reads "The Goron & Co." under that also reads "219 W Madison" and under that "Chicago" next to Chicago, in between these words and the logo is the number "28". On the right side of the frame there is a black stamp that reads "22X28" there is a "T" shape that goes above and in between that and the number "625". Under this reads "Hecho En Mexico" There are two metal hooks that are on each side of the painting that is connected by a metal wire that allows the painting to be hung.
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Large framed painting. The image is set in a mountainous region with a monestary on top of one of the peaks. On the right side there is one of the peaks, it is thin and the brush strokes make it appear to be very jagged. There is a gap between it and another set of peaks that are set next to each other and coming off of a flatter portion that extends from the bottom center of the paining to the middle left side. There is another two peak also coming from this flattened portion, but are coming from the left side, one cut in half by the frame and the other partially covered by the other. There is one large, square peak which is almost in the center of the painting, slightly more to the left than dead center, and there is a grey platform that is connecting it to the other smaller peak at the right. On top of this peak is a three dimensional building, a monestary. It is painted white and there is a obelisk tower that is on the inside right of the structure. The rocks are all painted in the same color, a wash/combination of green, red, orange, blue, pink, brown, and yellow. Black is used to create edges of the rocks, making them appear jagged and the enviorment more harsh. Inbetween the two peaks on the right it looks like there is a flat plain. It is colored with lighter creams and pinks with a few grey spots made to look like trees in the distance. At the other edge of the plain is another mountain range, done in a much lighter coloring than the front set. It is mixed with light pinks and light tones of blue and white. The ski of the painting is mixed with mainly orange and red, but with a few hints of blue and pink. In the bottom left hand corner is the intials "V.G.Scholomiti" The frame is a darker greyish stained wood. It has about a three inch wide piece of wood surrounding with a half inch wide and comes up about half an inch from the bordered wood plank. The back has the unstained wood and the planks that are holding the canvas in place sets into the frame about an inch and is nailed in place. There are metal hooks on each side, connected by two yellow ropes. On the top of the back side of the frame, hand written in black sharpie is "Meteora, Greece Monastery" to the left of that, also hand written is "V.G.Scholomiti" and under that is "Pauline Karalis' Sister".
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Framed portrait painting. The woman is looking slightly to the left, tilt in the neck, but body facing forward. The painting is of the chest up. It appears that she has a light pink dress on due to a slight puffiness on the shoulders and a very lightly painted, white upside down triangle painted on the middle of the chest. The color of the dress is very much the same color of her skin tone, the skin tone has some shadowing on the right side, light green shading. Around her neck she is wearing a necklace, black band with a round gold pendant hanging from it, which rests on the middle of her chest, right tin the middle of the white portion of the dress. She has a long neckline and the chin is defined by using a slightly darker shade of pink/peach. She her expresion on her face is a mixture of emotionless and serious. Her lips have a very indented cupids bow and the top lip is orange where the bottom is pink. Her nose has a defined bridge, but the point is a bit flat and not to much defined. There is a very slight pink in the cheeks. Her eyes has a bit of a heavy hood to them, eye color is a reddish brown. Eye browns are brown with a slight curve to them. Her hair is almost the same color as her eyes, a little more orange in the bangs and a beeper red towards the ends. It is up in a bun and curled. There is a light blue bow in the top of her head, the middle of the bow is covered by hair. The background of the painting is also in the same color as the dress and skin color. The frame is painted with a bit of a gold color, slightly darker, with a white wash over it. The back of the frame is painted white. There is a cardboard cover of the back of the painting itself and is nailed on. In the center of the cardboard there is a stamped square with writing in the inside of it. The first line reads "Artist-Approved" next line "Canvas Panel For Artists" next "Style C" "size 18"X24"" next "Manufactured for" then "Brudno Art Supply" after is "601 No. State st." "Phone: SUperior 7-0030" and lastly "Chicago, Illinois" There is another stamped square under the first, slightly smaller. It has two sections per row with a line under it, lines for hand writing in even though there is nothing written in these in particular. The first row has the space for 'Artist' and 'Address' the next has 'Name of Painting' and 'Place of Painting' and the last is 'Date of Painting' and 'Price' Written in pencil in the top right corner is "Scholomiti"
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A painting of a Greek monastery. The monastery is painted in various shades of grey, brown, and beige. The roofs of several of the building are painted a chestnut color. The rocky area in front of the monastery are painted in similar colors. At the back of the monastery are three towers, two on the left and one on the right, with arched windows. Several of the buildings in front also have windows. There is a tower that seems to jut out from the rest of the buildings, sitting in the rocky area. There appears to be at least one staircase going up through the rocks. The rocks are painted in a somewhat geometric, abstract style. The space behind the monastery is painted blue, possible representing ocean or a mountain range. Above this is a white sky. The bottom write contains the text "165/240" followed by a signature in Greek.
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Picture, Cut-paper
A piece of street art. The artwork is made using a combination of painting, drawing, and paper cutting. The focal point is the image of a face that takes up most of the space. The image is made with paint and marker and shows two dark, scrunched up eyes, a button nose, and a wide, toothy smile. This image has been cut out and placed on a colorful background. The background is made from a combination of cut out paper, paint, and ink. Pieces of the face image have been cut out or torn away to reveal more of the background. Part of the mouth has been torn away to reveal painted stripes of various colors with lines drawn across them in black marker. There is a yellow triangle under the right eye and a blue, upward-pointing arrow under the left eye. There is writing in a couple of spots, but it is largely illegible. The border of the background is painted blue, with various other colors painted on top if it. The letters "STMTS" are written in blue in the lower left.
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A piece of street art. The work appears to have been made using spray paint. The background is mostly blue, with streaks of oranges, pinks, and purples. Painted on top of this, in black and white, is an image of a child's head with the face looking down and to the side. The face is mostly white, with the details done in black. The top of the head, where the forehead and hair should be, fades to a white backround in the top left, which fades into the multi-colored background of the painting. A flock of black birds are painted against the background int he top left. The letter "STMTS" are in the bottom right corner.
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This is an oil painting on canvas. The canvas is held together in the back with wood and secured on with nails that surround all four borders. The subject in the painting is Yanni Vasiliou: a man with dark hair, eyebrows, eyes, and a large handlebar mustache. The background behind him is a pinkish-grey blend. The painting shows Yanni from his chest up. He is wearing a black suitcoat with a white collared shirt with a navy blue tie. The artist's signature is in blue, located in the bottom right hand corner.
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This is an oil painting on canvas. The canvas is held together in the back with wood and secured on with nails that surround all four borders. The subject in the painting is Eleni Kyriazis: an older woman with grey hair and dark eyes. She is slightly turned to her left. The portrait depicts her from her chest up. She is wearing what looks to be a long black dress with long sleeves. At the top near her collar, there is one large black button. The background is a pinkish-grey blend. The artist's signature is in blue, located in the bottom right hand corner.
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Watercolor painting of ruins with two people dressed in white. There are brown trees with green leaves and a white road. It has white matting with a golden frame.
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Canvas painting of ships. It has a blue sky with red anchor in the bottom right corner. There are small red boats in front, followed by medium size blue boats, then two large black boats with red bottoms. In the right, a city can be seen.
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Canvas painting with rocky backdrop. In front, there is a white enterance with a yellow building behind an orange roof. To the right of this building, there are dark green trees.
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Red watercolor painting with red building on the right and white tree trunks with black leaves on the left. The buildings are outlined in white.
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Watercolor painting with sea in the background. There are trees with white leaves and three buildings, as well as two people, one in red and one in blue and white. It is in a gold frame with white matting.
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Still life canvas painting with pomegranates. There is a vase on the left with flowers, and a wine jug on the right.
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Canvas painting with a person in blue with a yellow hat and another in pink in the right side of the painting, alongside a street with buildings to either side. There is a big tan building in the background. Behind one of the buildings on the right, there is a green bell with a cross on top. The frame is silver with black spots.
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Watercolor painting. There are houses spread out throughout the painting, with a clump of trees in the middle surrounding one house. In the background, there is a lake. The ground and the sky are a tannish color.
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Watercolor painting with a dark tree in the middle with green leaves, surrounded by white stones. The background has pink and blue mountains with pink and yellow in the sky.
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Watercolor painting of a street with a cart on the left and a man in black on the right, beside a black gate with a blue bottom. There are also three people standing in the street.
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Watercolor painting of seashore with boats. There are several boats on the becah, as well as one in the water. There is a tan house overlooking the water.
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Canvas painting with a red marketplace in the middle. There are two people with carts, and there are buildings on either side.
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Canvas painting with a white building on the on the left and a tan house on the right there is a tree in front of it. There is a person and a child in the middle of the road. There is also a blue sky.
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Canvas painting with a green bench on the left and two trees in the front. Behind one of the trees, there is a tan house with an orange roof and a man in white and yellow with a cart outside.
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Watercolor painting with a tree on the right with two people, one in red and one in blue. There is a tan building in the background, along with another tree. The trees have brown and white trunks with brown and green leaves.
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Painting on canvas of a narrow street with buildings to either side. There are three people in the street and a clothesline with clothes on it on a roof to the left.
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Watercolor painting of 5 people on the street, with two more in the background, as well as a black cat. There are houses on either side, some of which have black balconies.
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Watercolor painting with white matting and gold frame. On the left side, there is a grey tree with white leaves and five people sitting under it. In the background to the left and on the right, there is a city of tan houses with orange roofs.
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Watercolor painting with white matting and gold frame. The painting is in a town with a tree in the middle of a courtyard. There is a pink house on the right. A girl in pink is standing and a lady in black is sitting on the left of the painting in the backgound.
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