The Vergos Spring Sale of Modern Greek Art
Vergos Auctions' spring sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture was held on Wednesday 27 May 2026 at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation — 162 works charting two centuries, from Volanakis and Theophilos to Kounellis, Tsarouchis and Chryssa.
The Vergos Spring Sale of Modern Greek Art is Vergos Auctions’ annual spring auction of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture. The 2026 edition was held on Wednesday 27 May at half past six in the evening at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, with the catalogue on public view from 24 May. The sale offered 162 works across two centuries of Greek art, from the marine painter Constantine Volanakis and the naïve master Theophilos to the postwar and contemporary generations.
The 2026 catalogue set Yannis Tsarouchis and the Arte Povera figure Jannis Kounellis beside Konstantinos Maleas, Spyros Vassiliou, Giannis Moralis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Chryssa and Kostas Tsoklis, with Theodoros Vryzakis’s nineteenth-century canvas among the historical anchors. Founded in 1989 by Petros Vergos and now led by his son Andreas, Vergos is the largest and longest-running auction house in Greece. The spring sale is a separate fixture from the autumn and December outings of the same title; the equivalent the year before fell on 28 May 2025 at the Zappeion. Bids are taken in the room, by telephone, in writing and live online.