Theocharakis Foundation of Arts and Music - The Best from Greece

Visitors to the Theocharakis Foundation of Arts and Music have a few more days to catch a glimpse of over 70 highlights from the GI Katsigras collection. These include the portrait of Konstantinos M Melas as a child by Nikiforos Lytras, an early oil-on-canvas nude by Yannis Moralis, Thessaly painter Agenor Asteriadis’ egg tempera on board The City, depicting Larisa’s river, train station, houses and horses, and Yannis Psychopedis’ political work The Protest.

One of few individuals to collect art in postwar Greece, Katsigras built up his collection between 1950 and 1965. In 1981 he addressed a letter to Aristidis Lambroulis, Larisa mayor at the time, offering to donate his precious collection to the city on the sole condition that a municipal gallery be founded.

Comprising oils, watercolours, etchings and drawings, Katsigras’ collection - part of which had been exhibited at the Athens Municipal Gallery and the National Gallery before the opening of the Larisa Municipal Gallery in 2003 - features 781 works.
3 On at the Theocharakis Foundation for Arts and Music (cnr of 9 Vas Sofias and 1 Merlin sts, tel 210-361-1349 through to September 18