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001200 Nikos Yialouris, Rock place II, 1968, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 70 × 50 cm

The composition develops vertically, depicting a rocky cliff, upon which strange trees—likely lentisks—appear to grow. Using pastel as a medium and adopting an expressionist style with anti-realistic colours, the artist depicts the barren landscape. The cliff is rendered with hard, black outlines while the geometric planes are filled with contrasting colours (warm and cold tones). Amid these planes, the curved forms of the trees—painted in beige, white, mauve, and pink—stand out: another contrasting game. The painting is part of a series with landscapes that Yialouris created around 1970, revealing that—although he lived primarily on Chios—he was fully engaged with the wider artistic currents of his time. This was an era when Modernism, and particularly abstract painting, remained the dominant movement in Greek art.