Boats in the Sunset  1917

Pastel on paper [br]40 x 58 cm 'I thought that somehow I would paint the Battle of Salamis, which I heard had been painted by Volanakis, whose workshop was almost opposite our house in Piraeus. I saw this painting by Volanakis much later, and I realised that it had nothing to do with my own, which was a free copy of a postcard of a Dutch painter.' Yannis Tsarouchis ...