Jean Dufy visited Greece many times, but it was probably during a more extensive sojourn in October 1955 that this view of the Acropolis of Athens with the ruins of the Parthenon, one of the most famous landmarks in the world, was painted. Like many tourists who wish to capture the site of the Parthenon together with the city of Athens, the painter climbed the slopes of Philopappou Hill, justifiably dedicated to the Muses, in order to paint this evocative panorama. As he often did, the artist, embracing all at once the constituent elements of his subject, recomposed his vision in order to render it more expressive: the ruins stand firmly against a luminous sky, in contrast to the background of darkened hills and the flashes of red in the foreground. Painted approximately thirty years after the other two Jean Dufy canvases in the A. G. Leventis Collection, this landscape, which belongs to the final years of the artist’s career, displays the same qualities as the earlier works: an unerring sense of layout and balance of the composition; a rapid line; and a dynamic and bright palette.