He is the artist whose work determined the route of Greek painting. A celebrated painter who, although living away from Greece, painted in a genuine Greek character. He loved Greece, and his emotional ties with it were apparent in his choice of subjects of everyday life, social, still lives, thus becoming the visual commentator of Greek life.

The last creative period of his life was marked by religious and metaphysical anxieties, evident in the highly symbolic compositions he painted in light colors, creating a dreamy atmosphere.