Thaleia Flora Karavia — war artist, impressionist, trailblazer — captured Greek life with extraordinary sensitivity, from sun-drenched beach scenes to the deeply human face of wartime suffering.
White Flag
Johns’ ghostly White Flag drains America’s iconic symbol of colour and certainty — transforming patriotic familiarity into profound, haunting ambiguity through encaustic’s extraordinarily rich, layered touch.
The Yellow Sail
Signac’s Venice, the Yellow Sail — a luminous Pointillist masterpiece — captures the Adriatic city’s shimmering magic through vibrant dots of pure colour, radiant light, and Mediterranean joy.
The Knossos Veil
Fortuny’s Knossos Veil — ancient Greece reimagined in luminous silk — bridges Minoan fresco and Venetian haute couture, a timeless masterpiece born from one extraordinary couple’s shared artistic vision.
The Three Ages of the Woman
Klimt’s Three Ages of Woman — infant, mother, and bowed elder — weaves gold, symbolism, and tender mortality into one profoundly beautiful, timelessly resonant allegorical masterpiece.
The Lilies of the Valley Fabergé Egg
Fabergé’s Lilies of the Valley Egg — pink enamel, pearl blossoms, hidden Romanov portraits — captures Imperial Russia’s breathtaking opulence and tender family devotion in one exquisite Art Nouveau masterpiece.
The Prometheus Triptych by Oskar Kokoschka
Kokoschka’s monumental Prometheus Triptych — myth, apocalypse, and regeneration blazing across three panels — confronts postwar humanity’s arrogance and existential crisis with extraordinary Expressionist urgency.
Chagall’s magnificent ceiling at the Opéra Garnier
Chagall’s dreamlike 560-square-metre dome at the Opéra Garnier — dancers, musicians, and opera scenes swirling in luminous colour — unites modern wonder with Belle Époque grandeur magnificently.
Achelous and Hercules
Explore Thomas Hart Benton’s masterful 1947 mural reimagining the Greek myth of Achelous and Hercules — a powerful fusion of classical mythology and the American Midwest’s spirit of strength and abundance.
November First
Through muted ochres and November greys, Andrew Wyeth’s watercolour November First tenderly captures the quiet beauty of decay and renewal — a meditation on solitude, nature’s cycles, and passing time.