   
Exposition. Peggy GUGGENHEIM: A Centennial Celebration 12 juin 1998 - 02 septembre 1998 USA, New York, Guggenheim Museum http://www.guggenheim.org/solomon/exhibitions/199806_peggy_fst.html The exhibition traces the story of the Peggy Guggenheim's extraordinary life on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth, from her childhood in her native New York to her artistic activities in Europe and the United States and finally to her later years in Venice, where she created a museum-home in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni for her outstanding collection of Modern art.
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Notes : [ A highlight of the exhibition is a collection of Peggy Guggenheim's guest books, on view here for the first time. Peggy encouraged guests to her Venice home to sign the books in whatever manner they chose. As a result, the books contain an extraordinary collection of signatures, sketches, drawings, musical notations, poems, and comments by some of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century. The list includes Jean Arp, Cecil Beaton, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Helen Frankenthaler, and Robert Motherwell, among others. Several pages from these books will be on view in the exhibition. Peggy Guggenheim: A Centennial Celebration comprises paintings and sculptures from Peggy Guggenheim's collection; portraits and photographs of the art patron and her friends; guest book pages; and documentation and personal memorabilia, including clothing, exotic earrings, sunglasses, and other accessories. A large section of the exhibition will be dedicated to Peggy Guggenheim's gallery ventures in London and New York. In the years 1938 to 1947, Peggy was active in Europe and the United States as a gallery owner. It was during these years that she began to amass the superb collection of twentieth-century art that forms the core of the holdings of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Peggy’s first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, opened in London in January 1938 with an exhibition of works by Cocteau. Other shows there included “Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture,” which featured works by Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, and Antoine Pevsner, among others; and the first solo exhibition in London by Vasily Kandinsky. Several works from the sculpture exhibition, as well as Kandinsky’s painting Dominant Curve (1936) (now in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), will represent this enterprise, which was active in London until June 1939 and served as a catalyst for the growing appreciation of Modern art in England. Works of art by Jean Hélion, Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock, to whom Peggy gave his first one-person exhibition, will be among those representing the Art of this Century gallery, which was active in New York from 1942 to 1947. Several pieces of furniture by Frederick Kiesler designed specifically for that space will also be on view, helping to evoke the atmosphere of the legendary New York gallery. In the summer of 1948, Peggy’s collection was exhibited for the first time in Europe at the Venice Biennale. That winter, Peggy bought Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished eighteenth-century Venetian palace on the Grand Canal, and installed her collection there. She lived in the palazzo for thirty years. In 1976, three years before her death, Peggy formally donated her palazzo and art collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation of New York and her home was opened to the public as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Works on view from Peggy’s collection will include Arp’s sculpture Head and Shell (1933), the first piece of art she acquired; Francis Bacon’s Study for a Chimpanzee (1957); Joseph Cornell’s box Untitled (Pharmacy) (ca. 1942); Jean Dubuffet’s Fleshy Face with Chestnut Hair (1951); Giuseppe Santomaso’s Secret Life (1958); Laurence Vail’s Collage Screen (1940); and Emilio Vedova’s Hostage City (1945), among others. Images of Peggy Guggenheim on view include childhood portraits by Franz von Lenbach and a striking canvas painted by the French artist Alfred Courmes in 1926. Noted photographs of Peggy will also be exhibited, including works by Berenice Abbott and Man Ray, the latter featuring an elegant Peggy wearing a Paul Poiret dress. A selection of pages from Peggy Guggenheim's guest books from the Venice years will be on view. They include Clement Greenberg’s sketch of a gondola on the Grand Canal; Saul Steinberg’s whimsical drawings of Peggy and her dogs; Cocteau’s striking sketch of a head; Marino Marini’s drawings of horses; Man Ray’s irreverent female figure; and musical bars from such composers as Ned Rorem and John Cage. source: http://www.guggenheim.org ] |
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ABBOTT Benerice
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ARP Hans
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BEATON Sir Cecil
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CALDER Alexander
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| COCTEAU Jean |
CORNELL Joseph
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COURMES Alfred
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FRANKENTHALER Helen
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GUGGENHEIM Peggy
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HELION Jean
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KIESLER Frederick
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MARINI Marino
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MOORE Henry
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MOTHERWELL Robert
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PEVSNER Antoine
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SANTOMASO Giuseppe
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STEINBERG Saül
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| VAIL Laurence |
VEDOVA Emilio
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| VON LENBACH Franz |