‘He saw how architecture and sculpture could coexist’: why Greece fell in love with Henry Moore

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