Theodoros Markellos — Greek painter, landscapes and seascapes
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Dutch Landscape, Road Through Fields, Very Simple — 50.00 × 65.00 cm — Theodoros Markellos
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Dutch Landscape, Road Through Fields, Very Simple

M1946


Artist
Theodoros Markellos (1925–2015)
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions
50.00 × 65.00 cm
Category
Netherlands
Signed
Lower right

About This Work

A pale road runs straight into the distance, fields opening on either side. The quiet sits wide across the land.

The eye follows the road from foreground to horizon, where soft greens meet muted browns and ochres of the dirt track. A pale sky takes up nearly half the canvas, washed in even, diffuse light that softens every edge. Brushwork stays smooth and economical—broad strokes laid down without fuss, letting tonal shifts do the work where contrast might. There are no figures, no incident, only the long pull of the road and the openness around it. The air feels still, holding the kind of slow afternoon that belongs to flat country.