Peggy Guggenheim. The last dogaressa: masterpieces from her post-1948 collection on display.

From September 21, 2019 to January 27, 2020, the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa, curated by Karole P.B. Vail with Grazina Subelyte.

With this exhibition, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection intends to focus on post-1948 collecting, that is, after her departure from New York, the closure of the gallery-museum Art of This Century (1942-47) and her move to Venice.

Visitors will be able to admire about sixty works, including paintings, sculptures and works on paper, including those acquired during the 1940s and 1979, the year of his death. Among the masterpieces on display are René Magritte’s The Empire of Light, Francis Bacon’s Study for Chimpanzee, René Bro’s Autumn in Courgeron, Gwyther Irwin’s Serendipity 2, Kenzo Okada ’s Above White, and Tomonori Toyofuku’s Drift No 2.

Also on display for the first time on this occasion will be a number of scrapbooks, albums in which Peggy collected newspaper articles, photographs, and letters, revealing previously unpublished episodes from various stages of her life.

The rooms of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni will house most of the works acquired between 1938, the year Peggy opened her first Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London, and 1947, the year the collector moved to Venice. Thus, almost her entire historic collection will be on display, including masterpieces such as Box in a Suitcase by Marcel Duchamp, a work from 1941.

After careful study and restoration at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Restoration Laboratories of Florence, supported by EFG, it will be possible to see the masterpiece containing sixty-nine reproductions and miniatures of masterpieces by the Franco-American artist.

The exhibition is part of the celebrations of the seventieth anniversary of the first exhibition created at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni by Peggy Guggenheim and the fortieth anniversary of her death.

For info: guggenheim-venice.it

Image: René Magritte, The Empire of Light (1953-54; oil on canvas, 195.4 x 131.2 cm) © René Magritte, SIAE 2019 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Photo Archive Cameraphoto Epoche. Gift Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005

Peggy Guggenheim. The last dogaressa: masterpieces from her post-1948 collection on display.

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