“I dedicated myself to my collection. I made it my life’s work. I am not an art collector. I am a museum.”-Peggy Guggenheim
Channeling our inner Peggy with Billy Ceglia and Amanda Reynal
Ever since I read Confessions of an Art Addict on my honeymoon nearly 20 years ago, I have been fascinated with the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim. Peggy was a former wife of artist Max Ernst and the niece of the mining magnate, Solomon R. Guggenheim. She collected artworks mostly between 1938 and 1946, buying works in Europe as World War II began, and later in America, where she discovered the talent of Jackson Pollock, among others. In addition to being one of modern art’s biggest patrons, she was also quite the character surrounding herself with the greatest minds and talents of the 20th century.
Her art collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace, which was her home for three decades. The collection attracts over 400,000 visitors per year, making it the most-visited site in Venice after the Doge’s Palace. On our first night in Venice, the Rubelli family treated us to a private reception, tour, and dinner…Truly an art addict’s dream come true!
Crossing the Grand Canal with Michele Trout, Carmina Roth and Meg Joannides
We were pinching oursleves as we arrived by boat to a beautiful reception on the terrace overlooking the Grand Canal with Phillip Rylands, museum director and close confidante of Peggy Guggenehim, who entertained us with stories of one of Venice’s most beloved characters.
Marino Marini / The Angel of the City
Vasily Kandinsky /White Cross
Robert Delaunay/ Windows Open Simultaneouly 1st part, 3rd Motif
Gino Severini/ Sea+Dancer
Pablo Picasso/ On the Beach
Jean Metzinger / Au Velodrome
Giacomo Balla/ Abstract Speed and Sound
Jean Arp/ Head and Shell
Vasily Kandinsky/ Upward
Frantisek Kupka / Around a Point
Jean Helion / Composition
Theo Van Doesburg/ Counter Composition XIII
Constatin Brancusi / Bird in Space
Sam Francis/ Untitled
Marc Chagall / Rain
Paul Klee / Magic Garden
Jean Helion/ Equilibrium
Joan Miro / Dutch Interior 2
Renee Magritte / Empire of Light
Francis Bacon /Study for a Chimpanzee
Graham Sutherland / Organic Form
Jackson Pollack/ Croaking Movement
Jackson Pollack / Eyes in the Heat
Jackson Pollack/ The Moon Woman
Ibram Lassaw/ Corax
William de Kooning /Untitled
Arshile Gorky / Untitled
Alexander Calder / Silver Bed Head
William Baziotes
Jackson Pollack / Enchanted Forest
WORKS FROM THE SCHULHOF COLLECTION
Frank Stella / Gray Scramble
Sam Francis / Untitled
Joan Mitchell / Composition
Mark Rothko/ Untitled (Red)
Alexander Calder / Red Disc-White Dots
Ellsworth Kelly/ Blue Red and Green Red
Cy Twombly /Untitled
Cy Twombly / Untitled
Kenneth Noland/ Birth
Andy Warhol / Flowers
THE NASHER SCULPTURE GARDEN
Maurizio Nannuci
Maurio Merz / Albero Giocometti
Stay tuned for more about the Mistress of Modernism in my upcoming post!
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