Benaki retrospective hits all the high notes of Moralis's career

In the summer of 1932, the Athens School of Fine Arts wrapped up the academic year with an exhibition of work by the first-year students in the class of acclaimed painter Oumbertos Argyros. Yiannis Moralis showed two self-portraits in the show, which earned him a positive review by influential art critic Dionysios Kokkinos in the magazine Nea Estia.

This exhibition is the first stop in the comprehensive retrospective being held on Moralis (1916-2009) at the Benaki Museum's Pireos Street annex, in cooperation with the Greek National Gallery, the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Zoumboulakis Galleries and the artist's family.

The exhibition is loosely arranged in decades, covering the entire career of the great painter, engraver, set designer and art teacher, while also providing important insights into his private life.

"The 1930s section, which...

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