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Golden Hall, Athens, invited the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation to participate in a cultural event organized in honor of Franco-Hellenic relations. In response to the invitation, the Foundation has organized an exhibition exploring modern French Art. Titled Looking at French Art of the Twentieth Century, the exhibition is a small token of friendship offered to France, a country with which Greece has strong cultural ties, among others. Looking at French Art of the Twentieth Century features sculpture by Germaine Richier, César, Jean (Hans) Arp and François-Xavier Lalanne, prints by Georges Braque and Henri Matisse and oil paintings by François Rouan, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain and Jean Fautrier. In the same space the Foundation presents a history of its exhibitions and publications that have probed over the years the work of artists who were either born in France, or who chose to live and work there. The presentation surveys events and publications concerned with Henri Matisse, Balthus, Marc Chagall, Auguste RodinCamille Claudel, The History of Photography, Pablo Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Georges Braque, André Masson, and last but not least Surrealism. To complement the event, the French School at Athens presents an exhibition that documents its own activities in Greece.
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