Thursday 11 February 2016

Municipal Gallery, Athens - the permanent collection

 
 
The permanent collection



 
of the Municipal Gallery, Leonidou and Myllerou, Metaxourgheio, Athens.
 
The museum is located in a renovated old silk factory which consists of two buildings that are separated by a narrow paved courtyard.
 
 
 
 
The museum's permanent collection consists of 20th century paintings that have a strong Greek identity but where the influence of the major art movements of the century are in evidence. 
  



Byzantios, Perikles, Pine Tree, (oil on cardboard)




Lykourgos Kogevinas, Santorini (oil on canvas)





Periklis Vyzantios, The model and his Reflection, (oil on canvas)
 



Dimitrios Galanis, Landscape in France, (oil on canvas)
 



Michael Economou, After the Rain, (oil on canvas)


 


Nikolaos Othonaeos, Landscape in Poros, (oil on canvas)




Anna Kindyni, Mother's Shelter, (charcoal)
 
 

 
Anna Kindyni, Starvation, (charcoal)



 
Celeste Poychroniadi, Mother and Child, (tempera)




Giorgos Bouzianis, Channel in Dieppe, 1930, (watercolour)
 



Emmanuel Zairis, The Egg Seller, (oil on canvas)




Panos Sarafianos, Family, (oil and glue on canvas)




Kostas Iliadis, Woman Resting, (oil on canvas)




Yannis Maltezos, Jeannette, (oil on canvas)
 

 


Iris Drakouli, Nude, (watercolour)




Aglaia Papa, Woman at the Window, (oil on canvas)




Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Ship, 1935, (oil on canvas)




Rea Leontaritou, Jug, (oil on canvas)




Nikolaos Fotakis, Landscape in Chalkidiki, (oil on canvas)
 
 


Kostas Thettalos, In the Country, (oil on canvas)
 



Nikolaos Nikolaou, Kifisia, (ink on paper)
 
 


Spyros Papaloukas, Mytilene Landscape, (oil on canvas)
 
 


Spyros Papaloukas, Mytilene Landscape, (oil on canvas)




Spyros Papaloukas, Road in Agiassos, (oil on canvas)




Spyros Papalooukas, Mount Athos, (oil on canvas)
 
 


Aginor Asteriadis, Landscape with Trees, (watercolour)




Errikos Frantziskakis, Forest, (oil on canvas)




Takis Elefteriadis, Eressos Landscape, 1938, (oil on canvas)




Konstantinos Parthenis, Contemplation, (oil on canvas)





Gerasimos Steris, Sea Shore, (oil on canvas)







Nikos Engonopoulos, Orestes and Pylades, 1952 (oil on canvas)
 
 

2 comments:

  1. I want to be able to make watercolour sketches like Bouzianis' Dieppe drawing...looks as if it took 5 minutes, longer would have over worked it. It captures the mood, the detail, the weather, the time of day...such a talent.

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    1. I agree with your analysis, Avril. It's a wonderful painting.

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