been married to Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and to classicist Rex Warner. In 1973 he became a member of the Athens Academy and in 1986 a member of the Royal Academy in London. He was also a member of the Tiberiana Academy in Rome and was granted the title of Officier des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. In 1988 he had his last exhibition at the Royal Academy of London. His wife, Barbara, died in 1989. He died on September 3, 1994, in Athens. Today in Greece he is celebrated as one of the most important modern Greek painters. His house has been converted to a museum and is being run by the Benaki Museum. In 2018, the British Museum hosted an exhibition which focuses on the friendship of Ghika, the artist John Craxton, and the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor; their shared love of Greece was fundamental to their work. References Further reading Derycke, Jean-Pierre. "Ghikas and avant-garde in interwar Europe" (Ephesos Press, Athens 2004) Benaki Museum. Loukaki, Argyro. Cultural and Physical Space as a Condition of Artistic Vision: The Aegean in Greek Artists Maleas, Ghikas and Tetsis, in Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 8. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018, pp. 476–484. ISSN 2312-2129. "Drawings by Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Ghikas for Kazantzakis' Odyssey" (ADAM Press, Athens 1990). Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery, Benaki Museum. "DIMITRIS PIKIONIS 1887 - 1968", (Bastas-Plessas Publications, Athens 1994). 'Contemporary Relations between Painting, Sculpture, Architecture', Ghika, X magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov 1959; A Pine Tree; The Innermost Flesh of Vital Space, Ghika, X magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2, August 1961. External links Museums Benaki Museum (English) Municipal Gallery of Chania Municipal Gallery of Rhodes Municipal Gallery of Chios Online galleries Paleta Online Gallery British Government Art Collection Online Gallery of the Cultural Centre Artopos 1906 births 1994 deaths Greek art critics Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) Greek icon painters 20th-century Greek painters Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres University of Paris alumni Artists from Athens Honorary Members of the Royal Academy Academic staff of the National Technical University of Athens