The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation presents at its Museum in Athens, from December 6, 2025 to April 11, 2026, the temporary exhibition “From Monet to Warhol: Three generations, one collection, a journey through the evolution of Modern Art.”
83 masterpieces by 45 leading figures of modern and contemporary art form a unique visual panorama encompassing more than 12 artistic movements. Through a compelling dialogue between works, the exhibition retraces the history of painting from Impressionism to the present day.
Iconic artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries—including Bonnard, Chagall, De Kooning, Degas, Dufy, Ernst, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Magritte, Man Ray, Marquet, Matisse, Modigliani, Monet, Morisot, Munch, Picasso, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard and Warhol—are featured, alongside lesser-known yet equally important and influential artists such as Angrand, Anquetin, Denis, Feininger, Friesz, Hayet, Lacombe, Laugé, Pourtau, Ranson, Redon, Sérusier, Szafran, Vallotton and others.
Visitors have the rare opportunity to see, gathered together, key works that marked the most pivotal moments in art over the past 130 years, spanning from Impressionism to Pop Art, with intermediate movements including Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Abstraction and Surrealism.
The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous loan of a Swiss private collection, the result of an enduring passion for modern painting passed down through three generations of collectors. This collection exemplifies the harmony between the collector’s personal vision and refined aesthetic sensibility, combined with the coherence and completeness characteristic of the world’s most significant private collections. Engaging in an informal dialogue with the permanent Collection of the B&E Goulandris Foundation, the exhibition highlights the importance of each collector’s eye and instinct, as well as the desire to narrate the story of art through personal choices.
Works from this collection have been presented over the years in major international exhibitions and institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, the Royal Academy of Art and Tate Modern in London, the Musée d’Orsay, Grand Palais and Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, earning acclaim from audiences and critics alike. However, this is only the second time, and the first time in Greece, that such an extensive and representative selection of works from this collection has been presented to the public.
The exhibition is curated by Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, Head of Collection at the B&E Goulandris Foundation and Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Scientific Director Emerita of the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny.
An extensive trilingual catalogue (Greek, English and French) accompanies the exhibition, featuring detailed entries and scholarly documentation for each work.
06.12.2025 – 11.04.2026
