"Female Portrait", 1978
By Pindaros Platonidis (1914-1988)
Oil on wood, 23Χ33,5 cm.
Inv. No.: P-3

Born at Constantinople (Istanbul), Pindaros Platonidis was student of the Turkish artist Nuri Iyem.  He had his first solo exhibition in Istanbul (1948) and took part in a series of other group shows both in that city, as well as in Athens and Thessalonica.  He participated in a number of Pan-Hellenic exhibitions too.  In his work he followed realist and expressionist tendencies.  Since 1971 he settled in Athens, where he passed away in 1988.

P.D.Cangelaris, Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris Collection, vol.1, Athens 1991