Peggy Guggenheim .:. Collection

Alley, Ronald,
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 1979. ca. 100 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Kartoniert. 4to. 549 g

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* Most of the Catalogue Notes were written by Ronald Alley when this Collection was shown at the Tate Gallery London 1965. - Schwache Gebrauchsspuren, leicht gebräunt.
Bestell-Nr.158779

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Peggy Guggenheim | Kunstausstellung | Ausstellungskatalog | Kunstsammlung | Sammlungskatalog | Peggy Guggenheim

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The collection of twentieth-century painting and sculpture formed by Peggy Guggenheim is the only one in Europe which has a systematic historical basis. It embraces all the major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art and which can now for the first time be seen in a unified perspective. There are over two hundred works in the collection, representing more than one hundred artists. The collection is particularly valuable to the student of modern art in that It includes rare examples of those early manifestations of a revolutionary spirit, such as the Dada movement founded in Zurich in 1916 and the Suprematist movement founded in Moscow in 1913, whose significance for the future was not fully realized at the time. The collection also contains a very adequate representation (which is rare outside Holland) of the De Stijl group founded in Leiden in 1916 by Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. Visitors should note in particular the two magnificent drawings of 1912 and 1914 by Mondrian in which much subsequent development of abstract art is foreshadowed. A similar distinction belongs to the rare examples of early cubist paintings, such as the Marcel Duchamp of 1911, the Robert Delaunay and the Jean Metzinger and the Albert Gleizes, both of 1914.
The main feature of the collection, however, is a very complete representation of modern Fantastic or Surrealist art. The Surrealists properly so-called (Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Mire, Paul Delvaux, Rene Magritte, etc.) are all present with works which may be regarded as masterpieces. Even more impressive, however, are the examples of this style of art by artists who have never called themselves Surrealists—Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee. Picasso is represented by various works, among them an important early cubist painting of 1911 and the large Girls with a Toy Boat of 1937 which is one of the painter's most impressive and haunting compositions. The collection of sculpture matches the paintings in scope and representative completeness. It includes two major works by Brancusi, a rare work by Archipenko, three of Calder's finest " mobiles ", six examples of Giacometti's work, seven of Arp's and six of Henry Moore's. The collection, which was formerly (1942-47) shown in a special gallery in New York, now has a perfect setting in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, in the city which has done more than any other city in the world for exhibition of contemporary art, and which has become the accepted meeting-place for artists of all countries. Here, with perfect amity and surprising dignity, the art of this century joins the art of the past.
Herbert Read

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