The Benaki Museum together with the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation present the second part of an exhibition dedicated to the influential Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis. Born in 1910, Tsarouchis was influenced by the life and political events in Athens through the German Occupation, the Greek Civil War and the Junta, up to his moving to Paris in 1967. Famous for his portraits of sailors and soldiers, Tsarouchis has captured a very particular era of Greek history, one where antiquity and the neoclassical style were giving way to westernised and modern ways of life.

Tsarouchis' aim was to capture this essence of antiquity through modern people and clothing, hence the combination of different symbols and the dreamlike atmosphere in many of his works. The exhibition attempts to understand Tsarouchis' work through the master's own words, featuring manuscripts, interviews and statements from the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation archive.