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Goulandris collection of Modern masterworks finally revealed in new Athens museum

Dream museum of collectors basil and elise goulandris brought to life almost three decades after original proposal.

The long-awaited Athens museum includes Van Gogh's Nature morte à la cafetière (1888) Courtesy of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

Outstanding Impressionist and Modern works went on public display in Athens last month with the opening of the new Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum. It has taken 27 years since Basil (1913-94) and his wife Elise’s (1917-2000) proposal for a museum filled with their collection was first made, delayed by bureaucratic obstacles and a legal claim to the collection brought by Basil’s niece, Aspasia Zaimis, which was defeated in 2018.

A powerful native cultural heritage tends to crowd out an international approach in a country’s museums, and until now there was nowhere in Greece where the public could see works by 19th- and 20th-century European masters. The new museum has remedied this with works that even a rich US museum would struggle to put together today, by Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Braque, Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Klee, Pollock, Giacometti and Bacon, among others.

These are not minor examples of their work. A large Picasso of a woman with raised arms relates to the Demoiselles d’Avignon, painted in 1907. There is a rose-tinted façade of Rouen cathedral by Monet as well as Van Gogh’s flaming avenue of poplars and disciplined still-life dominated by a black coffee pot, both from 1888.

Some of the most famous galleries of the second half of the 20th century helped shape the Goulandris collection: Wildenstein in its heyday, Acquavella, Daniel Varenne in Geneva and Ernst Beyeler, who became a close friend of the couple and encouraged the idea of creating a museum. The auction houses played their part, especially Sotheby’s, with Simon de Pury advising Elise.

Basil Goulandris made his fortune from the Orion Shipping and Trading Company after the Second World War. He entered the big collecting league in 1957, when he bid a then record $297,000 for a still-life by Gauguin. The Goulandrises built their collection together and, unlike today’s buyers, did not keep it in a freeport but lived with it, moving works from their chalet in Gstaad to their apartment in Avenue Foch in Paris, and even to their yacht, the Paloma.

In 1979, the couple established their foundation and inaugurated Greece’s first contemporary art museum on the island of Andros, Basil’s birthplace, which held a collection of Greek art and hosted exhibitions every summer from 1986 of artists including Balthus, Dalí, Man Ray, Richter and Kiefer.

Collectors Basil and Elise Goulandris opened Greece’s first contemporary art space in 1979 Courtesy of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

The architect I.M. Pei was a friend, and in 1993 the couple commissioned him to design a museum in Athens. He came up with a pale limestone design with the feel of a church, inspired by Christian rather than classical Greece: a soaring hexagonal hall, windows fitted with translucent alabaster panes to filter the light and an enclosed garden with a fountain surrounded by orange trees. But the classical past interfered; the chosen site was abandoned in 1997 after the ruins of the Lyceum, where Aristotle taught his students, were discovered there.

Another location fell through largely due to the hostility of the local residents, who did not want crowds in their neighbourhood. Finally, the foundation led by Kyriakos Koutsomallis decided to adapt an existing building in Pangrati, a central neighbourhood with views of the Parthenon. It is on 11 floors, complete with lecture theatre, library, education department, restaurant and temporary exhibition space (opening in 2020). The works collected by the Goulandrises are on the lower floors, while the Modern and contemporary Greek art acquired by the foundation in recent years are above. All the running costs are covered by the foundation.

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“Even if someone had this kind of money, they would never come across these works. They are no longer on the market,” Greek artist Pavlos (born Pavlos Dionysopoulos in 1930) once said of the stunning art collection amassed by Greek shipowner Basil Goulandris (who died in 1994). Pavlos, a friend of Goulandris and his wife, Elise, was absolutely right. Among the works that Goulandris started collecting in the 1950s are true masterpieces of contemporary art.

From the end of 2017 or the beginning of 2018, it is hoped that art lovers will finally be able to view a number of the works at the Goulandris Museum in Athens. Located on Eratosthenous Street in Pangrati, the museum is nearing completion and the aim is for it to host a rare corpus of artworks signed by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Renoir, Joan Miro, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, among others.

For the first time Kathimerini reveals some of the glorious paintings and sculptures that will go on display at the museum’s first floor.

While the full list of exhibits has not yet been disclosed (a number of works were recently tied to offshore companies named in the recently leaked Panama Papers), an ongoing legal battle in Switzerland is shedding light on the affair. Information stems from legal documents on the websites of the Swiss and US justice departments.

The litigation’s opposing parties are Aspasia Zaimis, a niece of Elise Goulandris, and the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation and its director, Kyriakos Koutsomallis, executor of the deceased’s will (Elise Goulandris died in 2000).

While at certain stages of the process justice has appeared to lean toward the foundation, the procedure is far from over. This could explain certain aspects of the case, such as the mystery surrounding the collection, as well as a number of moves made by certain family members in the past.

The family feud and the offshore affair would have remained a strictly private matter for the Goulandris family if the collection was not headed for display in the Greek capital. Years ago, a negotiation between the foundation and the Greek state regarding the creation of a museum was based on the never-revealed catalog of works. While the state ceded two plots of land, located on Rigillis and Rizari streets, the project did not come to fruition. In this case, therefore, a private affair takes on a public dimension. But exactly what will be showcased at the museum which was eventually developed on land acquired by the foundation?

Gripping story

Even without the decisive public interest angle, the story has all the elements of a gripping story: shipping money, a chalet in Gstaad and a flat on the exclusive Avenue Foch in Paris, works by brilliant artists and international auctions through a trail taking its protagonists from Liechtenstein to Panama and the Greek island of Andros.

Focusing solely on Goulandris’s wealth while disregarding his personality would be largely unfair to the man. Born in 1913, Goulandris was a member of the 1930s generation, an avid art lover who mixed with the period’s cultured folk. One of the few to recognize the talent of Giorgos Bouzianis at the beginning of the artist’s career, the two men became friends when the latter returned from abroad.

Goulandris subsequently bought a number of his works. He believed in what Greece had to offer. His beautiful wife, who had become acquainted with the art world during her first marriage, had an innate sense of style and shared with him his vision of a museum to host the collection. Guests at the couple’s dinner parties in Paris included artists Chagall and Balthus, members of the Rothschild family and directors of leading museums.

The collection was built through hard work and money, via auctions as well as the couple’s personal relationships with art dealers and artists. Many of the masterpieces decorated the couple’s homes in Paris, Lausanne and Gstaad.

According to recent accounts in the international press, in 1985 Goulandris allegedly sold 83 of the collection’s works to Panama-registered Wilton Trading for 31.7 million dollars. The company was reportedly linked to his late sister Doda Goulandris Voridis (according to an earlier Bloomberg account). It is not known whether or not the sale was a bogus transaction, given that Basil and Elise held on to a number of works, some of which were loaned to museums. Following the construction of a museum on Andros, the couple wanted to see a second institution host the collection in Athens. The project began while they were both alive, but they did not live to see it materialize. A plan for the construction of a building designed by prominent American-Chinese architect I.M. Pei was abandoned following delays, excavations and Council of State decisions.

Following Elise’s death in 2000, her niece Aspasia Zaimis claimed a portion of the collection’s works. She based her claim on one of the interpretations of the will, according to which the invaluable works should not end up being part of the foundation’s assets, but go to Elise’s descendants. The case has yet to go to trial. Zaimis believes the works have disappeared and that some may have been sold.

Three plus one lists

Three separate lists of artworks appear in legal documents relating to the case which began in 2002. One list points to 30 works at the chalet in Gstaad, a second to 47 works at the Lausanne and Paris residences, while a third list of 85 works is most likely related to the Wilton Trading transaction. The existence of a fourth list is suggested in the documents, but is not attached. All together the lists add up to 162 works – quite possibly the foundation’s invaluable catalog of works with which it negotiated the Rigillis and Rizari museum plans with the state. Four of the pieces on the third list of 85 works were recently revealed through the leaked Panama Papers: Two Chagalls, one Van Gogh and a Bonnard appear to have changed hands through four short-lived offshore companies established in Panama in 2004. The companies appear to be related to the recently deceased Marie Voridis (Doda, Basil’s sister). According to a Swiss newspaper, the transactions were not meant to be tax-evading moves, but a way to preserve anonymity. The fact that the paintings were sold through offshore firms under no circumstances points to illegal activity. Could this be tied to the Zaimis case? No one knows.

What is certain is that the ongoing litigation has led the foundation – which wants the works to remain at the Athens museum – to shroud the collection in secrecy. What will happen when the works eventually go on display at the new building? According to a person familiar with the case, a solution has already been found in order for the acquisitions’ ownership not to be challenged.

Masterpieces

Among the masterpieces detected on the lists of legal documents are works that have gone on display at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation's Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros, including the museum's “The Classics of Modern Art” exhibition in 1999:

1. Edgar Degas, Petite danseuse de quatorze ans (1880-1881), sculpture

2. Paul Cezanne, La Campagne d’ Auvers sur Oise (1881-1882), painting

3. Claude Monet, Cathedrale de Rouen le matin (1894), painting.

4. Auguste Rodin, L’eternel printemps (1884), sculpture.

5. Paul Gauguin, Nature Morte aux pamplemousses (1901 -1902), painting.

6. Vincent Van Gogh, Nature Morte Cafetiere (1888), painting.

7. Pierre Bonnard, La Sortie de la Baignoire (1926 -1930), painting.

8. Pablo Picasso, Femme Nue aux bras leves (1907), painting.

9. Georges Braque, La Patience (1942), painting.

10. Fernand Leger, Elements Mecaniques (1919), painting.

11. Joan Miro, Paysage (1942), paintings.

12. Wassily Kandinsky, Beide gersteift (1932), painting.

13. Paul Klee, Dynamik eines Kopfes (1934), painting.

14. Max Ernst, Pendant que la terre dort (1956), painting.

15. Alberto Giacometti, Femme de Venise (1956), sculpture.

16. Francis Bacon, Three studies of a self portrait (1972), painting.

17. Jackson Pollock, Number 13 (1950)

18. Balthus, Paysage de Montecavello (1979), painting.

19. El Greco, La Santa Faz (1580), painting.

20. Fernando Botero, Still Life with green curtain (1982), painting.

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What Happened to Basil Goulandris’s Legendary Art Collection?

July 1, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Remember how the Panama Papers were supposed to rip the lid off the international art world? Well, they didn’t. All we got was disputed Modigliani that remains, well, disputed. And then there was the tantalizing story of the Wilton Trading entity that turned out to be the vehicle for Basil Goulandris’s sister when she sold some paintings that had been in her brother’s legendary collection.

The revelation hasn’t done much to unravel the real mystery of the Goulandris collection, where it went and whether some of the widow’s relatives were left out of being beneficiaries.

The Wall Street Journal tries to make hay with this story but it remains as opaque as ever:

Documents leaked as part of the Panama Papers in April may end up having a bearing on the case: They reveal that three paintings put up for auction at Sotheby’s in 2005 by anonymous sellers were actually offered by Mr. Goulandris’s younger sister. The paintings—a Bonnard and two Chagalls—were part of the group of 83 paintings that Basil Goulandris allegedly sold in 1985. If the sale never happened, then Mr. Goulandris’s sister did not have the right to sell them, according to Ms. Zaimis.

Of the 83 masterpieces that sit at the center of this dispute, only a few have even been seen in the past two decades, stoking curiosity about their whereabouts. Of that group, Mr. Koutsomallis, the couple’s art expert, told investigators that he could only pinpoint the location of 29 works because he said the widow had reclaimed them from her husband’s relatives and held them in another foundation called Sirina in Liechtenstein, according to Swiss court documents. But Ms. Zaimis and her lawyer say they don’t think Ms. Goulandris ever arranged for Sirina to own any of her art, including van Gogh’s “The Olive Pickers.” Today, dealers say that painting alone could sell for as much as $200 million.

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Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation

An impressive Museum of Modern Art, showcasing the mythical collection of Basil & Elise Goulandris, opened for the public in October 2019 and now adorns the centre of Athens.

“Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation” museum bears the name of its founders and is housed in a stunning, modern building, a few metres away from Panathenaic Stadium (Kallimarmaro). It is a self-owned property, which occurred from the harmonious interaction between a listed, interwar building and a contemporary extension.

The extraordinary museum was designed specifically in order to house the collection of B&E Goulandris Foundation. The collection mainly focuses on modern and contemporary art by Greek and foreign artists, including rare works by masters of the European avant-garde such as Cézanne, Monet, Gauguin, Degas, Miró, van Gogh, Rodin, Bonnard, Picasso, Giacometti, Léger, Toulouse-Lautrec, Braque, Balthus , as well as works by distinguished modern Greek painters including Parthenis, Tsarouchis, Moralis, Tetsis, Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Bouzianis, Vassiliou and others.

The museum building has a total surface area of 7,250 sq.m. and extends over 11 floors , five of which are below ground. The exhibition areas cover a total of five floors, four above ground with a surface area of 1,124 sq.m. housing the permanent collection and one below ground with a surface area of 530 sq.m. that hosts temporary exhibitions of Greek and foreign artists, in the context of the Foundation’s established exhibition policy which has pervaded its activities in Andros island over the last forty years.

The ground floor features the museum shop where visitors can purchase publications by the Foundation and other publishing houses as well as gifts, while the museum’s café-restaurant is located on the mezzanine floor. It is an open, urban garden ideal for coffee, breakfast, lunch or light dinner that offers the most contemporary version of an international Greek cuisine, taking full advantage of fresh, exclusively Mediterranean ingredients.

The floors below ground host a library with around 6,500 books, children’s workshop which hosts educational programmes and art classes for children, as well as a state-of-the-art 187-seat amphitheatre which hosts events including lectures, conferences, screenings, performances, concerts and other artistic and scientific activities.

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The newest blockbuster museum in Athens is home to a roll call of modern art masters, from Van Gogh to Picasso.

A portrait of Elise Goulandris by Chagall (1969) hangs on the wall near the entrance of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation in Pangrati.

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Inside the New Goulandris Museum: A Modern Art Repository 30 Years in the Making

Elise and basil goulandris purchased their first painting in 1956. on october 2, that and many other works from their incredible collection will finally be on public display in the museum they dreamed of..

Elina Dimitriadi | October 1st, 2019

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand,” Pablo Picasso once said.

When we are children, we first perceive the world through our senses. First come the images, and then the words. I studied history of art because, even now that I can use words, I continue to think in images. When you first visit the new museum of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation on Eratosthenous St , don’t attempt to explain anything. Surrender yourself to everything that you feel, observing the museum inside and out, on the edge of the central Athens neighborhood of Pangrati next door to the Panathenaic Stadium.

In July, when Kathimerini photographer Vangelis Zavos shot the first photos from the museum, there was only the architecture to supply the first pieces of a puzzle that was 30 years in the making . At first there was just the white marble and the natural curves of the interior staircase giving a sense of flow.

The sculptures then followed, which appear before you unexpectedly in every alcove of the eleven floors of the new museum, keeping us on our toes from the first step along this adventure that the foundation’s president, Fleurette Karadonti, dubbed “loving and discovering art” .

In the basement there is still only a piano, shrouded in a dark green velvet cover, but it is not some modern art installation. It is simply a part of the space where future traveling exhibitions will be hosted at the museum, the first of which has been scheduled for autumn 2020.

It is September, and on this visit the first thing that I see is the iconic portrait of Elise Goulandris by Marc Chagall , created in 1969. Approaching, I see that Elise is not alone in the painting. The faint outline of her husband, Basil Goulandris , hovers over her, with the artist capturing in a painting the essence of a discreet relationship, that of a couple that was together in life and in art.

I then look at the colors visible outside the window, a rectangle of orange from a shop across the road, the deep green of the surrounding awnings, the ochre of the church of Aghios Spyridonas next door to the museum, and it all reminds me of color as used by Cézanne. Color as structure.

Like the foreshadowing in Homer’s epics, all of this prepares me for what I will see on the next floor.

A Collection full of emotion

But nothing can prepare you for the moment that you see firsthand El Greco’s “Veil of Saint Veronica” , the first artwork purchased by Elise and Basil Goulandris in 1956.

“This is a personal collection. The works they chose, they lived them; they enjoyed them in their daily lives; they discussed them with their friends and they constantly explored the dialogue between the works every time they repositioned them,” says Maria Koutsomalli , head of the collection of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation.

In my eyes it appears to be a collection filled with emotion, with subtle connections that lead from El Greco’s ascetic figure of Christ to the ascetic life of Van Gogh and his painting “Still Life with Coffee Pot” which depicts the painter’s sole belongings when he moved to Arles alone, without even a bed to sleep in.

On this first tour, a number of days before the official opening on October 1st, the labels for the paintings have yet to be installed, but I immediately recognize the small self-portrait of Cézanne, “the father of us all,” as Picasso had said, and the father of this collection,  as it was the second and most important work that was purchased.

Cézanne’s gaze leads me across the hall, to Monet’s work, “Rouen Cathedral in the Morning (Pink Dominant)” with its pastel shades reflecting those of the adjacent work “Olive Picking” by Van Gogh .

The youthful lightness of Degas’ “Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer” converses with the optimistic surrealism of “Grasshopper” by Joan Miró and “Young Man with Bouquet” by Picasso , a work from 1905. A sweet young man who works in a circus looks into my eyes as if seeking my approval. “Nude Woman with Raised Arms”, the second Picasso work in the collection which dates to 1907, couldn’t care less.

Painting has now become geometry. And the mask that it wears as a face appears to be telling me, “I am like this and I don’t care if you think I am beautiful or not.” The expressive sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel , another couple that joined forces in life and art, make the final painting next them etch itself into my memory all the more deeply – “Le Solitaire” by Georges Braque . It is 1942 and the woman in the painting is drinking wine and turning over the cards, waiting to find out whether her lover will return from the Second World War.

New Beginnings

On the next floor, WWII has ended. There is the desire for a new beginning, evident in Lichtenstein’s pop-art “Sunrise”. Legér avenges the dead through intense colors, lyricism coexisting with abstraction. Pollock paints energetically over baseball boardgames, Klee and Hundertwasser try to understand the “human head” and the existentialism in the Giacometti sculptures evinces “a sensitive humanity that stands and persists, despite the fact that it can fall at any moment,” Ms Koutsomalli says. People improvise, such as Matisse for the series that he created using a collage technique when he was seriously ill.

This floor is also filled with sketches on paper by artists such as Modigliani and de Chirico , sketches that ended up surviving the test of time. Anselm Kiefer and Francis Bacon remind us how vulnerable man is and how painful life can be, but love comes to save the day once more, and I stop to look at the sculptures of the avant-garde couple Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson , as well as the Goulandris couple’s important collection of French furniture with which they decorated their homes.

The Greek Floor

On the next two floors one finds early Parthenis , the characteristic works of Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas , and the portrait of Giorgos Seferis by Makris which reminds us that on small Agras Street next to museum stands the home where the Greek poet once lived.

There is the island of Hydra as depicted by Veroukas and Tetsis, “Anodos” by Opy Zouni , Tsarouchis’ “Sailor Sitting at the Table” , Moralis’ “Erotic” and works by Gaitis, Samios, Tsochlis, Sophia Vari, Fassianos, Mytaras and Bouzianis. They are all here, and I finally come back to where I began, at one more portrait of Elise and Basil Goulandris, this time by George Rorris.

Five different generations of artists , and so many generations of people who will look upon their work for the first time.

“Art does not divide, art unites,” the director of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Kyriakos Koutsomallis, will say on the day of the press conference, shortly before the new museum opens its doors to the public on October 2.

And that is its most important role.

This article was first published in Greek in Kathimerini’s “K” magazine on 29/09/2019.

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February 21, 2013

Greek billionaire shipping magnate, Basil Goulandris died in 1994. His wife died in 2000. The couple owned a large billion-dollar worthy collection of art that was kept in their Alpine chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland. Bloomberg News reports that one of Goulandris’ heirs, Aspasia Zaimis, is seeking to recover parts of the Goulandris collection that were sold in 1985, which at one time contained works by Picasso, Monet, Degas and Cezanne.  Although the sale took place when both Mr. and Mrs. Goulandris were still alive, claimant has been quoted as saying “I believe with all my heart that the paintings were part of my inheritance.” Zaimis is a legatee under Elisa Goulandris’s will. Another beneficiary of the same will is the Elisa Goulandris Foundation, now under an investigation by the Swiss authorities.

The account of the allegations reads like fiction: a Greek heiress, masterworks sold to a Panamanian company, a cyphered will, an art historian/executor of the will suspect of falsifying titles of ownership, Swiss privacy laws, a death on a yacht, etc.

Claimant is represented by Ron Soffer of Soffer Avocats in Paris. One of the defendants is represented by Jean- Christophe Diserens of Etude Villa Olivier in Lausanne.

To learn more details about the Goulandris mystery, read “ Greek Heiress Suis After Chalet’s Picassos, Monets Vanish .”

Sources: Bloomberg News ; The Independent . Image: Vincent Van Gogh’s “Still Life: Coffee Pot” from Basil and Elise Goulandris collection.

Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only and is not meant to provide legal advice. Readers should not construe or rely on any comment or statement in this article as legal advice. For legal advice, readers should seek an attorney.

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Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation: Highlights from the Permanent Collection

Errika Gerakiti 21 February 2022 min Read

Foundation’s director Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Fleurette Karadontis and Marie Koutsomallis with Picasso’s Nude Woman with Raised Arms.  Greek Travel Pages.

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Basil and Elise Goulandris were a Greek couple who met and married in the 1950s in Manhattan, New York. They were highly educated, with a profound respect for art. The couple started building an enviable art collection. Their collection included names such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Fernando Botero, Francis Bacon, Claude Monet, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, and many others. However, Basil and Elise Goulandris did not collect these artworks to showcase their wealth. Their goal was to build a museum of modern art in a central spot in Athens so that all people could see and admire them. Unfortunately, they passed away before the museum was built.

Finally, the  Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation  was completed and opened in 2019. Its collection is impressive. I visited the museum a while ago, and these are a few of my favorite highlights. If you find yourself in Athens, you should definitely pay a visit and view the entire collection.

Photograph of Basil and Elise Goulandris. Foundation’s website. Detail.

1. La Santa Faz by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)

El Greco, The Veil of Santa Veronica , early 1580s, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece. Photo by the author.

On the way to his crucifixion to Calvary, Jesus Christ fell while carrying his cross. A woman, Veronica, offered him her veil. Jesus Christ used it to wipe his sweat and blood and then returned it to her. When she took it, she realized that his face was imprinted on the veil, hence the name of the painting.

This is how the legend of Saint Veronica was born. It became widely popular in the 15th century, inspiring many great artists. To name a few,  Albrecht Dürer ,  Hieronymus Bosch ,  Correggio , and others. So, when  Theotokopoulos  decided to paint it, the subject was already a big tradition in Catholic art.

This specific variation was created by  Theotokopoulos  himself, not with his students. He painted the fabric folds, the lightning, and the harmony of Jesus’ face thoroughly. It is as if the face floats in the dark background. This painting summarizes the artist’s artistic journey, combining elements of  Byzantine  and Western art.

2. Eternal Springtime by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin, Eternal Springtime , 1884, bronze with brown patina, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

The  Eternal Springtime  is a manifestation of Rodin’s love for  Camille Claudel . At first, she was his apprentice, but she later became his partner and lover. They had a passionate affair.  Rodin  was 24 years older than Claudel, which often caused quarrels. So, Rodin removed their age difference from the sculpture.

The male figure embraces the female protectively. The woman accepts the embrace with tenderness while both are lost in this passionate moment.

Eternal Springtime  became popular in 1898 when the couple had already broken up.

3. Patience by Georges Braque

Georges Braque, Patience , 1942, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

This piece is considered Braque’s masterpiece for the  WWII period . The artist created it after he self-isolated voluntarily in his studio during the Nazi occupation of Paris. The painting shows a claustrophobic interior with no source of natural light. The complex composition of vertical and zig-zag lines showcases a feeling of anxiety and loneliness.

A woman is sitting at a table, playing cards, as a means to trick her boredom. She looks like she has two sides. The one side that shows us her face has colors and light; she is daydreaming. The dark side does not have that many details, though. Here she only looks anxious and nervous. However, the figure does not represent only a woman. The figure represents the artist himself, as Braque shared many of the woman’s traits at that time.

4. Three Studies for Self-Portrait by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Self-Portrait , 1972, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

Another gem of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is this fascinating piece by  Francis Bacon .

Francis Bacon is famous for the distorted figures he painted. He used to paint alone in his studio, using negative photos, mostly of himself. He created many triptychs. At one point, he decided he would paint only large-scale and small-scale triptychs. He called the latter studies, even though he had completed all of them. This is the case for this specific painting as well.

Three Studies for Self-Portrait  shows Bacon with closed eyes against a black background. The face slowly erases from left to right, “A s if the void devours it .” In the right painting, we can no longer see the right eye and cheekbone. Furthermore, the eyes remain shut as the face transforms into a shapeless mass. This depiction shows Bacon’s shyness and sadness.

5. Nude Woman with Raised Arms by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso, Nude Woman with Raised Arms , 1907, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

This is the first oil painting that Picasso completed, right after  The Young Ladies of Avignon . These two works signify the beginning of  Cubism .  Nude Woman with Raised Arms  includes many of the artist’s influences. Yet, it is an original piece, which shifts from past teachings. There is no third dimension here. It is a two-dimensional composition. The geometric shapes force the viewer to reconstruct the actual figure in their minds. Thus, it is a rather intellectual painting.

Its colors are dark and aggressive. One, the female figure adds light to the painting. Her pose indicates movement since she has both arms raised above her head. The face looks like a mask. Moreover, the overall shape of the woman, with its irregular proportions, depicts a universal female. Her nudity gives her confidence and power. In a way, she threatens the ordinary female beauty standards with her aggressiveness.

6. Olive Picking by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Olive Picking , 1889, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

When talking about artists with  mental illnesses , the first name that comes to mind is that of Vincent van Gogh . His  mental health  had always been fragile, with many violent outbursts.

Right after he cut off his ear, Van Gogh went to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence’s psychiatric clinic. There, he painted non-stop. It is truly remarkable how one can see the differences in his paintings. When he had seizures, the brushstrokes were heavier, more aggressive. They also loaded more color onto the canvas. When he has calm, the overall feeling of his works is serene and peaceful.

During his stay at the  clinic , he liked to paint  nature , at least when he was allowed to go out. So, cypresses, mountains, and olive trees are recurring themes in his paintings during this period. Van Gogh created  Olive Picking  with the three women being present. The color story is soft and earthly. The heavy brushstrokes give the impression of moving leaves and sky, the working women. The artist created two more versions of this subject. Nevertheless, this one is more vibrant, as if it is a live scene.

7. Dynamic of a Head by Paul Klee

Paul Klee, Dynamics of a Head , 1934, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

During the rise of the nazi party,  Paul Klee  fled Germany because he was considered a  degenerated artist . He moved to Bern in Switzerland, where he worked on various techniques and subjects. He liked to examine opposite concepts, such as representation and abstraction, irony and poetry, etc.

In this painting, we observe the reconstruction of a head through several geometric shapes. It stands out from his other works of the same period due to the use of vibrant colors. Also, Klee put only eyes on the head as the only way to break the abstract pattern. We, as viewers, need to find by ourselves the forehead, the nose, the chin, and the shoulders.

Klee  was influenced heavily by  music . Dynamics was a term that stood for the range of sounds an instrument could make. In the case of this painting, dynamics represent the different alterations of the head, the different colors, and different perspectives.

8. The Painter’s Studio by Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer, The Painter’s Studio , 1983, oil, emulsion, woodcut, shellac, acrylic paint, and straw on canvas, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

Born in the ruins of WWII Germany,  Kiefer  believed that the artist’s role was to depict the dark faults of humanity. Moreover, he was constantly thinking about what modern people would do if they were in the shoes of the German people during their darkest times. On the other hand, Kiefer also believed that the artist ought to create beauty out of the mess and ugliness.

One of Kiefer’s favorite themes was the artist’s studio. It was the place where the artist was alone, recollecting his thoughts and creating. In this particular painting, we can see the studio from the outside. It looks like a witch’s hut or a destroyed building. At a first glance, the painting looks chaotic and pessimistic. Nevertheless, a closer look accents the beautiful colors that emerge in the composition. They symbolize hope amidst the abyss.

9. Still Life with Green Curtain by Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero, Still Life with Green Curtain , 1982, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

Botero is famous for his  chubby figures . This still life from the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is no exception. In this painting, the artist used only five colors. His goal was to keep things simple. The fact that all objects are round and curvy makes the viewer want to devour or squeeze them. So,  Botero  managed to engage the audience by accessing their dark thoughts of gluttony and greed.

10. Nude with White Flower by Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein, Nude with White Flower , 1994, tape, pencil, acrylic paint, marker and printed paper on board, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece.

This is an introductory collage for  Lichtenstein ‘s future oil painting,  Nude with Yellow Flower . Actually, he made a series of nudes in the 1960s and then during the years 1993 to 1997. He drew inspiration from the DC romance comic books.

In this collage, Lichtenstein followed a procedure of multiple steps of creation. Besides, it is one of his characteristics as an artist. Even though the artwork looks like a  comic strip , it does not have many elements left from the original. The woman wears nothing, has a mobile phone, and has no speech bubbles. She is sexualized, but not because of a male presence.

We hope you enjoyed these ten highlights from the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation. As aforementioned, the museum’s collection is vast, and it includes many great names. Hopefully, these highlights will make you visit the museum and see its treasures yourself!

• Anselm Kiefer
• Auguste Rodin
• Fernando Botero
• francis bacon
• georges braque
• pablo picasso
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Vincent van Gogh

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The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1979. Its main purpose is the operation of its two museums, on the island of Andros and in Athens, and the promotion of visual arts on a domestic and international level.

Its founders and inspirers were Basil and Elise Goulandris who were passionate about art. Painting was the main focus of their interest which connected them to the artistic circles of post-war Paris; they also promoted young Greek artists, helping them to evolve their art and expand their artistic horizons.

The museum of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens houses the Foundation’s rare Collection of modern and contemporary art, with works by Cézanne, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, El Greco, Chagall, Rodin, Miró, Parthenis, Tetsis, Tsarouchis, Moralis and will also hold temporary exhibitions of Greek and foreign artists. Apart from exhibition spaces, the museum – with a total surface area of 7,250 m2 spread over 11 floors – also houses a shop and Café – Restaurant, art library, children’s workshop and a state-of-the-art auditorium. Concerts, theatrical productions, discussions, activities for children and adults and educational workshops complement the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation philosophy, in a series of innovative events harmoniously incorporated in the museum setting.

The Foundation’s Art Collection, is one of the most important private collections to be assembled during the second half of the 20th century. Like every private collection, the criteria for choosing the works composing it were purely subjective. Basil & Elise Goulandris opted for these particular works driven only by their personal preferences and their own aesthetic codes. The main purpose of Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens is to host this collection, making it accessible to the public and respecting the wishes of its founders.

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BASIL II., called TEMNY ("the Blind") (1415-1462), Sod of the preceding, succeeded his father as grand-duke of Moscow in 1425. He was a man of small ability and unusual timidity, though not without tenacity of purpose. Nevertheless, during his reign Moscow steadily increased in power, as if to show that the personality of the grand-dukes had become quite a subordinate factor in its development. In 1430 Basil was seized by his uncle, George of Halicz, and sent a prisoner to Kostroma; but the nation, dissatisfied with George, released Basil and in 1 433 he returned in triumph to Moscow. George, however, took the field against him and Basil fled to Novgorod. On the death of George, Basil was at constant variance with George's children, one of whom, Basil, he had blinded; but in 5445 the grand-duke fell into the hands of blind Basil's brother, Shemyak, and was himself deprived of his sight and banished to Uglich (1445) The clergy and people, however, being devoted to the grand-duke, assisted him not only to recover his throne a second time, but to put Shemyak to flight, and to seize Halicz, his patrimony. During the remainder of Basil II.'s reign he slowly and unobtrusively added district after district to the grand-duchy of Muscovy, so that, in fine, only the republics of Novgorod and Pskov and the principalities of Tver and Vereya remained independent of Moscow. Yet all this time the realm was overrun continually by the Tatars and Lithuanians, and suffered severely from their depredations. Basil's reign saw the foundation of the Solovetsk monastery and the rise of the khanate of the Crimea. In 1448 the north Russian Church became virtually independent of the patriarchal see of Constantinople by adopting the practice of selecting its metropolitan from among native priests and prelates exclusively.

See S. M. Solovev, History of Russia (Russ.), (Petersburg, 1895).

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