The Vergos Spring Sale of Modern Greek Art
Vergos Auctions' spring sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture is expected in late May 2027 — the late-May fixture that in 2026 brought 162 works, from Volanakis and Theophilos to Kounellis, Tsarouchis and Chryssa, to the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.
The Vergos Spring Sale of Modern Greek Art is Vergos Auctions’ annual spring auction of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture. The 2027 edition is expected in late May; the house has held the fixture in the same late-May window across two consecutive editions: on 27 May 2026 at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, and on 28 May 2025 at the Zappeion, each opening with a public exhibition in the days before the hammer.
The 2026 catalogue carried 162 works traced across two centuries — from the marine painter Constantine Volanakis and the naïve master Theophilos through Konstantinos Maleas, Spyros Vassiliou and Giannis Moralis to the postwar and contemporary names: Yannis Tsarouchis, the Arte Povera figure Jannis Kounellis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Chryssa and Kostas Tsoklis. 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 house confirms the 2027 date and venue on its own calendar in the weeks before the sale.