
The Coumantaros Art Gallery of Sparta is the first Annex of the National Gallery outside of
Athens. The Annex was founded in 1982 after a donation of the neoclassical building and the art
collection of Ioannis Coumandaros by his children, Dolly Goulandris and Georgios Coumandaros.
On the ground floor is housed the collection of I. Coumandaros, consisting of works by European
painters with various subjects from the 16th to the 19th century.
The first floor, renovated in 2018, houses a new permanent exhibition of works from the
National Gallery, which presents a concise diagram of the history of Modern Greek art, based on
the main artistic trends and the most important themes developed from the first years of the
creation of the Greek State to the present day.
The permanent exhibition consists of eighty-two works, paintings (71) and sculptures (11), by
important Greek artists. Their themes include historical painting, portraiture, antiquity, genre
painting, symbolism, plein air painting, reflections on the Greek light and Greekness, as well as
abstract art.
Idea – Coordination: Marina Lambraki Plaka, Director of the National Gallery – Alexandros
Soutzos Museum
Museological study, Exhibition Curation: Efi Agathonikou, Head of the Directorate of
Collections, Museological and Artistic Programming
Collaboration: Monika Diamanti, Curator at the National Gallery – Annex of Sparta
Museographic Study: Christine Longuépée, architect
Annex Curator: Monika Diamanti
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PERMANENT EXHIBITION
The permanent exhibition contains eighty two [82] artworks, paintings and sculptures (eleven), of important Greek artists: Vryzaki, Drossi, Kounelaki, Halepa, Lytra, Gyzi, Volanaki, Iakovidi, Partheni, Dimitriadis, Maleka, Nikou, Nikou , Bouziani, Triantaphyllidi, Gounaropoulos, Kontoglou, Theofilou, Tsarouchi, Diamantopoulos, Morali, Avramidi, Kapralou, Spyropoulos, Stamou, Efthymiadis-Menegaki, Mitara, Fasianou, Gaiti.

Moralis Yannis (1916 – 2009)
Funerary Composition I

Pige Francesco (1822 – 1862)
Marigo Sachtouri

Parthenis Konstantinos (1878/1879 – 1967)
The Riches of Communication

Vryzakis Theodoros (1814 or 1819 – 1878)
Portrait of Kolokotronis

Engonopoulos Nicos (1907 – 1985)
Theatre

Valsamakis Panos (1900 – 1986)
Inner Vision
JOHN COUMANTAROS COLLECTION

Caliari Carlo (1570 – 1596)
Allegorical Figures

Dedreux Alfred (1810 – 1860)
Dogs Claiming a Bone

Delort Charles-Edouard (1841 – 1895)
A Cardinal, Cleric and Servant

Dutch School
Fortified Town

French School
Landscape

French School
Still Life with Flowers and Fruits