Nicolas Sperling is an artist who illustrated the book Hellenic National Costumes. Limited to three hundred copies only, this exquisite undertaking issued by Athens’ Benaki Museum features fifty-five full page color illustrations housed in its original full tan linen over boards portfolio with ties. It was the first of two independent volumes (the second was published in 1954) and a supplement that totaled one hundred and eleven reproductions in all. Divided into the categories of “Gala Dresses and Town Dresses”, “Dresses of Continental Greece”, and “Dresses of Peloponnesus, Thessaly, the Island of Euboea, Epirus, and Macedonia”, it artfully surveys traditional Greek folk costume of the early twentieth century.
Nicolas Sperling
