It was in the spring of 1949 that Mr. Niarchos began to form this remarkable collection.
In less than a decade, therefore, he has gathered together a group of paintings and sculpture, mainly of the French impressionist and post-impressionist schools, which contains a large proportion of works of the highest quality.
Not a few of the paintings, for instance the Black Clock and the Self Portrait by Cézanne, the Portrait of Père Tanguy and Les Alyscamps by Van Gogh are well-known masterpieces. There is also a group of four remarkable paintings by Gauguin, a well-known early Matisse The Dinner Table, and, what some people may regard as the most distinguished painting in the collection, The Pietá by El Greco, originally in the collection of the Contesse de a Béraudière; in all sixty-seven paintings and three pieces of sculpture.
A number of these pictures were formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Robinson.
Philip James
