At Athens, Appreciating the Modernism on Offer at the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
A gallery set aside for modern and contemporary Greek artists proves that localism has its benefits. Only a snob would fob off the best of the artists as being derivative of international trends.

Among the signal — and haunting — accomplishments of 20th century art is a series of paintings by Pierre Bonnard dedicated to the subject of a woman at her bath. Although we know the identity of the model as being the French painter’s wife, Marthe de Méligny, the pictures are less biographical aperçus than elegiac registrars of sensation, evocations of memory that have been simultaneously distilled and elaborated upon.
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