History:

I painted this small picture in the Greek island of  Paros, while on holiday. To do it, I spent several days in the middle of a narrow street crammed with tourists and local children, asking the same questions again and again: "Where are you from?" or "Can you also paint my face", and so on...

After four days, when I was satisfied that the picture was done, I sold it to a local restaurant. However, before delivering it to the client, I made several exact copies of it, "just in case", and sold three copies almost immediately. My own (last) copy was given away recently (in 2002) to a friend's coffee-house in Saronida (Attika).