Even fashionistas who may not be into art know Peggy Guggenheim for her style, accessories such as jewels at times made by artists and flamboyant butterfly-shaped sunglasses. But there will be more time to discover about her next year thanks to an event that will celebrate her at the Venice-based Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Curated by Karole P. B. Vail, with Gražina Subelytė, "Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa" (21 September, 2019 - 27 January, 2020) will take place inside Peggy Guggenheim's former home, the beautiful Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on Venice's Grand Canal.
Visitors can usually admire here iconic pieces of 20th century European and American art, including works by Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio De Chirico, Constantin Brancusi, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder, on display in the spaces where the collector lived - from her bedroom to the dining room, kitchen and library.
The exhibition will celebrate Peggy Guggenheim's life in Venice where she moved in 1948, after she closed her museum-gallery Art of This Century (1942-47) in New York. The exhibition will present a selection of paintings, sculptures and works that Guggenheim acquired from the late 1940s to 1979, the year she died and will offer the chance to see again masterpieces like René Magritte's Empire of Light (1953–54), and works by René Brô, Gwyther Irwin and Grace Hartigan, as well as the Japanese-born Kenzo Okada and Tomonori Toyofuku.
For those of you who may visit the Palazzo in the next few weeks, there is instead still the chance to see "1948: The Biennale of Peggy Guggenheim", marking the 70th anniversary of the exhibition of the collection of Peggy Guggenheim in the Greek Pavilion at the 24th Venice Biennale (with a layout designed by Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa), and "Osvaldo Licini: Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away", featuring around 80 works of the Italian abstract painter. Both exhibitions will be open until 14th January 2019.
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