The Bank of Greece's Art Collection - 3

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

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.

This is the third and final post on this exhibition. If you want to see the other two posts you can go here and here

Andreas Vourloumis, Seated Young Man, 1959, (oil on canvas)

Mentis Bostantzoglou, Erotokritos and Aretousa, 1970-79, (oil on canvas)

Giorgos Ioannou, Third Class Carriage, 1969, (oil on canvas)

Nelly Andrikopoulou, Portrait of Nata Mela, 1948-49, (ink and watercolour on paper)

Nelly Andrikopoulou, Natalia Mela painting in Spetses, 1985, (tempera on paper)

Asadour Baharian, The Linotype Setter, 1963, (oil on canvas)

Gerasimos Steris, Composition with Sea, 1930-39, (oil on canvas)

Yannis Pappas, Portrait of a Child, 1953, (tempera on paper)

Polykleitos Rengos, The Model, 1955, (mixed media on canvas)

Nikos Nikolaou, Nude Figure, 1963, (oil on canvas)

Lefteris Rorros, Composition, 1960-69, (oil on canvas)

 Stefanos Daskalakis, Portrait, 1984, (oil on canvas)

Fotis Kontoglou, Portrait of my Brother, 1938, (oil on canvas)

Edouard Sacaillan, Evoking the Spirits of my Parents, 1983, (oil on canvas)

Cleopatra Dinga, Man on the Tracks, 2007, (charcoal and gouache on paper)

Panayiotis Tetsis, Objects, 1970-79, (oil on canvas)

Dimitris Mytaras, Composition with Sunglasses, 1970, (acrylic on canvas)

Yannis Gaitis, Fira, Santorini, 1953, (oil on canvas)

Eleni Vernadaki, Form, 1973, (ceramic)

The first bluebells - 2026

The bluebells in our garden have been in full bloom for a few days now, and even though the garden variety seem to flower much earlier than the wild ones, we thought we would go and have a look at the wild ones. For our first trip (there will be quite a few, as we both love bluebells) we decided to go to the woods that start just outside Leamington and lead to Leek Wootton.

Almost immediately we saw some

Wanting to have them all around us,  we took this narrow path on our left

a large area full of them, all around us

I post about bluebells every year and every time I am disappointed by the quality of the photographs - the vivid blue, the vibrancy never comes out, it's such a disappointment

We got to the end of the path, fields in front of us

so we retraced our steps

as you can see, they are not fully out yet

We joined the main path again

Not many people about, we must have seen two people for the whole walk - it was just us and the birds

Another area with bluebells

more flowers amongst the bluebells

Again, another path leading to an area full of bluebells, so we took it

I love walking through woods, but in bluebell season I forget to look up

We did not walk all the way to Leek Wooton. I was recovering from a cold, and this was my first walk so wanted to take it easy so we retraced our steps

got to the end of the walk, which was also our beginning, through the gate

on the narrow path next to the field.

Walked on the road for less than two minutes

View from the bridge

and from the other side

zooming in - I wish I could see this house properly, it always intrigues me. As you can see in the photograph it's on two sets of stills. And those windows - I love them.

After the bridge, this wooded area, that has some very interesting buildings

Approaching the mill, the main building in the area

but before that, the entrance to the house I saw from the bridge - that's all one can see

plus, this. I wish I could see more

and now, the mill. 

I love this building - this was probably a loader

the balcony

the window. And what's the bit below, a small inner balcony?

the wheel

the steps going up

the side of the mill

A view of the mill from the other side - I love that chimney

The Mill House across the road. We'll have to come back when the wisteria is in full bloom

We then walked back to our car and headed for home. I love this little green oasis which is only a 10-minute drive from the centre of Leamington.