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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a museum of modern art created by the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979). Peggy assembled the core of her collection in London, Paris and New York between 1938 and 1947. In 1942 she opened her museum/gallery Art of This Century in New York, where she exhibited her collection of European avant-garde art as well as organizing exhibitions dedicated to young American artists, including Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock. In 1948 her collection was exhibited at the first post-war Venice Biennale. The following year Peggy acquired Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished 18th century palace on the Grand Canal of Venice, where she was to live for thirty years and which now hosts the museum. The collection was assembled with the advice of artists and critics, such as Marcel Duchamp, Herbert Read, André Breton and Max Ernst, Peggy's second husband. In 1976, Peggy gave her Venetian palace and her collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, which now operates the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Guggenheim Bilbao (jointly with the Basque Regional Government), the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (jointly with Deutsche Bank), and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum (Las Vegas). 
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection exhibits an important selection of Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger), European abstraction (Piet Mondrian, Vasily Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay, Jean Arp, Kazimir Malevich), Surrealism (Joan Miró, Ernst, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy), and American abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko). The Nasher Sculpture Garden, named after Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher, exhibits artworks from the permanent collection (Alberto Giacometti, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henry Moore), sculptures by Dan Graham, Herbert Hamak, Jenny Holzer, Maurizio Nannucci and Fabrizio Plessi, and other long-term loans from other collections or foundations, which strengthen the presence of contemporary sculpture in the collection. Masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection are also exhibited, including artworks of Italian Futurism and early works by Giorgio Morandi. The museum organizes temporary exhibitions of modern art, and offers both a Museum Shop and a Museum Café. Peggy Guggenheim Collection Hours: 10am-6pm; Closed Tuesdays |
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