Charmed lives in Greece. Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor
EXHIBITION
Charmed lives in Greece. Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor
FROM 08/03/2018 - TO 15/07/2018
The exhibition presents the friendship of three significant figures, the artists Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) and John Craxton (1922-2009) and the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), from the early years of their acquaintance in the mid-1940s to the end of their lives.

Through the display of works of art, extracts from texts, photographs, letters, manuscripts and publications, we follow their relationship and their artistic and literary careers, with their love of Greece always a common denominator. 
As well as giving a chronological account, the exhibition plays on the theme of the places which inspired them – Hydra, Kardamyli, Crete and Corfu – and where they found hospitable settings to live and create.  

Most of the artworks belong to the Ghika Gallery of the Benaki Museum and the Craxton Estate in London, but also from Museums and private collections in Greece and abroad.  

The exhibition was presented in 2017 at A.G. Leventis Gallery in Cyprus and then at the Benaki Museum in Athens and is accompanied by a bilingual publication with texts by the editors and an abundant photographic material.

See at http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/charmed_lives_in_greece.aspx

TAGS + Add

VISITING INFORMATION

British Museum
DURATION:
08/03/2018 - 15/07/2018
ORGANISATION:
Τhe A.G. Leventis Foundation
CURATORS

Evita Arapoglou, Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Ian Collins, Ioanna Moraiti