Bernitsas Law sponsors the Ghika - Craxton - Leigh Fermor Charmed Lives in Greece Exhibition, at the Benaki Museum between June and September 2017.
The exhibition presents the friendship of three significant figures, the artists Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) and John Craxton (1922-2009) and the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), from the early years of their acquaintance in the mid-1940s to the end of their lives.
Through the display of works of art, extracts from texts, photographs, letters, manuscripts and publications, we follow their relationship and their artistic and literary careers, with their love of Greece always a common denominator. As well as giving a chronological account, the exhibition plays on the theme of the places which inspired them - Hydra, Kardamyli, Crete and Corfu - and where they found hospitable settings to live and create. Most of the artworks belong to the Ghika Gallery of the Benaki Museum and the Craxton Estate in London, but also from Museums and private collections in Greece and abroad.
The exhibition will travel afterwards at the British Museum in London and is accompanied by a bilingual publication with texts by the editors and an abundant photographic material. Curators: Evita Arapoglou, Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Ian Collins, Ioanna Moraiti. Organised by: A. G. Leventis Gallery, Benaki Museum & Craxton Estate.
