Yannis Pappas' workshop, yet another annex of the Benaki Museum.
I have known of the existence of this annex of the Benaki Museum for a while, but it was only the other day that I visited. When Yannis Pappas died in 2005 he bequeathed his house and all the unsold sculptures to the Benaki Museum. The house is as delightful as the sculptures themselves.
I walked through the gate into the tranquil garden, and towards the house at the end of this path.
The main hall, with stairs leading up to the two floors and the workshop on the left.
A small room on the first floor. There was no artificial lighting throughout the house (except for the workshop) - very unusual for a museum, and it was only when I was processing my photographs that I realised this.
Self-portrait, 1934, (oil on canvas)
Nude, 1934, (oil on cardboard)
Self-portrait, 1933, (oil on cardboard)
Eirene, 1965, (bronze)
looking closer
Study for a skull, 1954, (oil on cardboard)
Dancer, 1996, (oil on cardboard)
Up the stairs I went,
the second floor consists of two rooms, a small one,
and a much larger one
Study for a large monument, 1957-58, (steel plate)
Alekos Zannos, 1942-43, (oil on canvas)
Alekos Zannos, 1943, (plaster)
Diotima, 1993, (plaster)
another sculpture on the balcony
Seated Man, 1964, (plaster)
I moved downstairs and entered the workshop where three sculptors were working restoring some of the work. Impossible to take proper photographs here, as there were so many sculptures
I liked this crucifixion scene, but it's difficult to isolate it given all the other work around it
looking up I could see into the large room on the second floor
Now it was time to explore the garden
Christos Kapralos, the sculptor, 1936, (bronze). You can see his work here
Jocasta, (mother and wife of Oedipus), 1991, (bronze)
The destruction of Delphi, 1966, (bronze)
Alexander the Great
On the Threshold of the Third Millenium, 1993, (bronze)
Homer, 1996-68, (bronze)
looking closer
detail
detail
Shepherd, 1961, (bronze)
looking closer
And then I saw the tortoises - I first thought they were sculptures
and their baby.
One last look at the house, and then it was time to go home.
