The Vergos Winter Auction
Vergos Auctions' winter sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture is held at the Zappeion Megaron in early December — a three-day public exhibition followed by the evening sale.
The Vergos Winter Auction is Vergos Auctions’ annual winter sale of Modern Greek painting and sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, held at the Zappeion Megaron in Athens. Founded in 1989 by Petros Vergos — initially in rare books, manuscripts and maps, turning to the picture market in 2000 — the house is now led by his son Andreas and is the foremost auction house working wholly within Greek art. The 2026 edition is expected in early December.
The 2025 sale set the range: Konstantinos Parthenis’s Resurrection — a canvas painted during the Greco-Italian War and intended for the Athens City Hall — alongside Nikos Engonopoulos’s Hero, Yannis Tsarouchis’s Young Thinker, and Chryssa’s Advertisements, with Theophilos, Gyzis, Volanakis and Halepas through the catalogue. The 2024 edition offered 153 works.
The format holds from year to year: a three-day exhibition in the Zappeion’s neoclassical halls, open to the public, followed by the evening sale. The fixture has fallen in the first fortnight of December at the Zappeion in each of the last two editions; the house sets the exact dates in the autumn.