A new show in Athens tells how the Yorkshire sculptor’s sole visit kicked off a mutual adoration

Through the gargantuan windows of an art deco villa suffused with natural light on the slopes of central Athens, the monumental sculptures of Henry Moore stand like sentinels to a modern age. It is a setting of which the great 20th-century British sculptor would have undoubtedly approved.

Against a backdrop of trees and the purist austerity of the white interiors of the Gagosian gallery, Moore’s works are attracting an audience hungry to pay homage to the man who declared that visiting the Acropolis was “the greatest thrill I’ve ever had”.