The Bank of Greece's Art Collection - 2

60 Years of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Some of the art in their collection 

at the Benaki Museum, Pireos, Athens.

The bank's collection comprises more than 7,000 works of painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawings, illustrated books, tapestries, mosaics and ceramics. A fraction of it is displayed at the Benaki Museum. It spans the whole of the 20th century, giving us an overview of how Greek art developed in that period. In this second post we will feature their prints, lithographs, etchings. If you want to look at the first post go here

Zizi Makri, Chimneys, 1959, (block print)

Zizi Makri, Foundry in Budapest, 1961, (block print)

Vasso Katraki, WAITING 2, 1968, (lithograph)

To see more of Katraki's work go here and here

Nikos Nikolaou, Hydra, 1933, (block print)

Yannis Moralis, Yannis Kefalinos, 1935, (block print)

Panayiotis Tetsis, View of a Seraside Village, 1961, (aquatint)

Zizi Makri, Landscape with Mountain Village, 1953

Nikos Kadjikyriakos-Ghika, Still Life, 1954, (lithograph)

Louisa Montesantu, Cage with Parrots, 1987, (block print)

Dimitris Tiniakos, Andros, 1952-54, (block print)

Lambros Orfanos, Birds, Paris, 1955, (etching)

Yannis Tsarouchis, Spring, 1978, (lithograph)

Yannis Moralis, Seated Girl, 1935, (block print)

Yannis Moralis, Workers, Moissis Raphael and Giorgis Dimou Behind Him, 1933, (block print)

To see more of Moralis' work you can go here

Yannis Moralis, Faces, 1934, (block print)

 

Tassos (Anastasios Alevizos), Slaves, 1967, (block print)