WOMAN AS MUSE 1900-1950

The exhibition “Woman as Muse, 1900-1950” presented approximately 90 works on paper, watercolors, engravings and drawings of the first fifty years of the 20th century, by European artists (including Greeks) from Herakleidon Museum’s collection, the National Gallery, Alpha Bank’s collection as well as the private collection of Georgios Oikonomou and Charalampos Leontiadis.

More specifically regarding Herakleidon Museum’s collection, works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Landacre, Dame Laura Knight, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Childe Hassam were presented.

The female form has inspired artists of all ages and ethnicities from ancient times to the present day. The exhibition “Woman as Muse, 1900-1950” presented works by world-renowned modernist artists, who depicted various ways of rendering the female form and reflected the dominant artistic currents of their time. The woman is depicted a mother, a lover, a friend or as a “secret”. It is alternately nurturing, deceptive, persistent or conspiratorial.

Herakleidon Museum thanks the women:

-Marilena Z. Kasimati, dr. of Art History, Curator of the National Gallery

- Irini Orati, Art Historian, Curator of the Alpha Bank collection

Irini Dimitrakopoulou, Art Historian Archaeologist, Curator of the Georgios Oikonomou collection

For their valuable contribution to their selection of the works and presentation of the exhibition.

Exhibition Curator

Alexandra Van der Staaij