The Museum of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens houses one of the most important private collections to be assembled in the course of the second half of the 20th century. The Collection of the B&E Goulandris Foundation focuses on modern and contemporary art by world-renowned artists such as Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Kandinsky, Miró, Giacometti, Balthus, Pollock, Bacon, Lichtenstein and Botero as well as acclaimed modern and contemporary Greek artists including Parthenis, Bouzianis, Vassiliou, Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Tsarouchis, Moralis, Tetsis, Takis, Chryssa, Stamos and others.