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Port of Yalos.
Bronze statue of Michalakis, a young fisherman.
Sculpture de Kostas Valsamis (Κώστας Βαλσάμης).
Kostas Valsamis (Κώστας Βαλσάμης, 1908–2003) was a Greek sculptor, born on the island of Symi, in the Ottoman Empire and died in Athens. In 1945 he received a scholarship from the French government and completed his studies at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1980, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, and since 1987 he was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Fine Arts. Among his works are the busts of Konstantinos Cavafis, Dominikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) and Herodotus.
Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2011.
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