in the Colours of the Mediterranean

10.01 - 07.04.2024

B&E Goulandris Foundation, Athens

Neo-Impressionism in the Colours of the Mediterranean

10.01 - 07.04.2024

A comprehensive tribute to the Neo-Impressionism art movement for the first time in Greece

The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation joins forces with major European museums and presents, for the first time in Greece, a comprehensive tribute to the Neo-Impressionism art movement focusing on the Mediterranean region, that will run from January 10 until April 7, 2024.

The exhibition “Neo-Impressionism in the Colours of the Mediterranean” (1891-1914) takes place in collaboration with important European museums and organisations including the Musée d’Orsay, the National Gallery in London, Centre Pompidou, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, the Musée de l’Annonciade, the Musée de Grenoble, the Musée national d’archéologie, d’histoire et d’art – Luxembourg and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs as well as European private collectors. The exhibition will feature works by Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Maximilien Luce, Théo van Rysselberghe, Henri Matisse, Henri Manguin and Louis Valtat, most of which will go on display for the first time in Greece.

Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Scientific Director Emerita at the Giverny Museum of Impressionisms (musée des impressionnismes Giverny) and Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, Head of Collections at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, are the exhibition’s curators.

Under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture

Paul Signac (1863-1935), "The Red Buoy", 1895. Oil on canvas | 81.2 × 65 cm | Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Paul Signac (1863-1935), "Sails and Pines", 1896. Oil on canvas | 81 × 52 cm | Private collection

Paul Signac (1863-1935), "Saint-Tropez. The Fountain of Place des Lices", 1895. Oil on canvas | 65 × 81 cm | Private collection

Paul Signac (1863-1935), "Antibes. The Towers", 1911. Oil on canvas | 66 × 82.3 cm | The Albertina Museum, Vienna - The Batliner Collection

Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910), "The Farm (evening)", May 1892 – March 1893. Oil on canvas | 65 × 92 cm | Private collection

Paul Signac (1863-1935), "Venice. The yellow sail", 1904. Oil on canvas | 73 × 92 cm | Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Centre for Industrial Creation, Paris, on deposit at the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology (former collection of Georges and Adèle Besson)

Théo Van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), "Paul Signac at the helm of the Olympia", 1896. Oil on canvas | 93 × 114 cm | Private collection

Maximilien Luce (1858-1941), "The Port of Saint-Tropez", 1893. Oil on canvas | 73.7 × 91.4 cm | Private collection

Théo Van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), "Coastal Scene", c. 1892. Oil on canvas | 51 × 61 cm | National Gallery, London

About

Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Organisation of the Exhibition

Kyriakos Koutsomallis General Director

Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon Curators of the Exhibition

Alexandra Papakostopoulou General Coordination

Catalogue of the Exhibition

Neo-Impressionism in the Colours of the Mediterranean

Authors

Marina Ferretti Bocquillon
Scientific Director Emerita of the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, specialist in the work of Signac and Neo-Impressionism

Charlotte Hellman Cachin
Director of the Signac Archives

Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau
Head of Collections of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation