Portrait of Evang. Averoff-Tossizzas

The oil-painting Portrait of Evangelos Averoff-Tosizza is an attempt to portray the philosopher-politician and man of letters, giving emphasis to the rendering of the face, in an effort to capture his individual characteristics. The result may be a work of simplified painting, familiar from the artist's water-colours and the seascapes, but it succeeds in conveying by its physiognomy the wealth of the intellectual interests of the subject which fill his world, quite apart from politics. In any event, the pencil in his hand and the blank papers on his desk refer us precisely to this capacity of the politician, the author, and the writer.