Theodoros Markellos — Greek painter, landscapes and seascapes
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Kifissia with Snow, Near the Station — 38.00 × 61.00 cm — Theodoros Markellos
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Kifissia with Snow, Near the Station

M2076


Artist
Theodoros Markellos (1925–2015)
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions
38.00 × 61.00 cm
Category
Greece
Signed
Lower right

About This Work

Snow has settled over Kifissia's station road — rooftops buried, the pavement one unbroken white between bare winter branches.

Everything feels paused, caught in this quiet. A row of low buildings recedes behind bare branches, the station anchoring one side. The scene is held in cool whites and pale grays, but then you find these little moments—slate green foliage peeking out, or the ochre of a wall where snow has slipped. A touch of warm brick. The paint itself is layered, the thick whites built up so the snow has a real weight to it. And the light is so soft, coming from one side and leaving only the gentlest shadows. A few bundled figures move through, small against the quiet. The whole scene holds its breath, time slowed, the cold settling kindly over a place so unused to it.