Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation
Eleven-story museum of Impressionist and modern masterworks in a former neoclassical mansion.
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This guide to the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens follows a shipping magnate and his wife who spent nearly fifty years quietly collecting paintings by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso and Pollock, keeping them in their own homes rather than a vault. It traces the bitter family feud, including a rival claim from Basil's niece, that followed his death without a will in 1994, and revisits the day diggers preparing the museum's site struck the ancient Lyceum where Aristotle once taught.
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