Corfu Museum of Asian Art – Exhibition: Edward Lear & the Ionian Islands
The exhibition Edward Lear & the Ionian Islands, organised by the Corfu Museum of Asian Art, was held at the Palace of St Michael and St George from 26 May to 31 August 2012 and was jointly supported by the A. G. Leventis, Bodossaki and J. F. Costopoulos Foundations. The exhibition marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the painter, illustrator and poet Edward Lear (1812-1888) and brought together some of his most lyrical oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and lithographs, representing scenes from the Ionian Islands and the still-unspoiled landscapes seen in his travels through mid-19th-century Greece and Albania. The exhibition aimed to evoke a vision of the untrammelled beauty of the Ionian world as Lear saw it when he returned, in the 1850s and 1860s, time and again to Corfu.
Grants given:
2011, 2012
