The Peggy Guggenheim Collection ( Italian: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim ) is a small museum in the Palazzo Venier de Leoni ( Italian: Palazzo Venier dei Leoni ) on the Grand Canal in Venice , one of several museums of the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation . The permanent exhibition includes more than 300 works. Most of the exposition is Peggy Guggenheim’s personal collection, including works by authors working in such areas as modernism , futurism , cubism , surrealism , abstract expressionism . The museum presents the works of Picasso , Leger , Severini , Mondrian , Kandinsky , Miro , Klee , Ernst , Magritte , Dali and other artists. Since September 1997, the museum has displayed 26 paintings from the collection of Gianni Mattioli , including “Flowers” by Giorgio Morandi (1913) and “Portrait of the Artist Frank Haviland” by Amedeo Modigliani (1914).
| Peggy Guggenheim Collection | |
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| Collezione Peggy Guggenheim | |
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| Founding date | 1951 |
| opening date | Daily 10.00-18.00 (closed on Tuesdays and December 25-26) |
| Location | |
| Address | 704 Dorsoduro, I-30123 Venezia |
| Site | guggenheim-venice.it |
Featured Works
- Pablo Picasso - Poet; Workshop (1928); On the beach (1937)
- Georges Braque - Clarinet
- Vasily Kandinsky - Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2 (1913)
- Gino Severini - Sea = Dancer (1914)
- Marc Chagall - Rain
- Konstantin Brynkushi - Bird in Space , Mayastra
- Kazimir Malevich - Untitled (c. 1916)
- Giorgio de Chirico - The Red Tower (1913)
- Salvador Dali - The Birth of Fluid Desires (1931–32)
- Juan Miro - Dutch Interior II (1928)
- Max Ernst - Vestments of the Bride (1940)
- Marino Marini - City Angel (1948)
- Jackson Pollock - Lunar Woman (1942), Alchemy (1947)
See also
- List of museums in Venice