Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa

21 September 2019 - 27 January 2020
 
Peggy Guggenheim Collection | Venice, Italy
 
Peggy Guggenheim sitting on the throne in the garden of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, 1960s. Photo Roloff Beny / courtesy of Archives and National Archives of Canada Peggy Guggenheim sitting on the throne in the garden of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, 1960s. Photo Roloff Beny / courtesy of Archives and National Archives of Canada

Peggy Guggenheim settled in Venice in 1948 after having closed her museum-gallery Art of This Century (1942-47) in New York.

The exhibition will celebrate Peggy Guggenheim's Venetian life, shedding light on how she significantly continued to add works of art to her collection. It will present a selection of paintings, sculptures and works on paper that Guggenheim acquired from the late 1940s to 1979, the year in which she passed away. It will also recall the milestone events and exhibitions that she organized and participated in.

Focusing on the last three decades of Guggenheim's acquisitions, the exhibition will offer an unparalleled opportunity to revisit and re-contextualize renowned masterpieces. These comprise René Magritte's Empire of Light (1953–54) and Duchamp's Box in a Valise (1941) alongside rarely exhibited works by artists such as René Brô, Gwyther Irwin, and Grace Hartigan, as well as the Japanese-born Kenzo Okada and Tomonori Toyofuku, thus conveying Guggenheim's interest in art beyond Europe and the United States.