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Publisher's cloth, pictorial dustjacket. Very fine. New York, Harry N. Abrams in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1983. 4to. 25,5 x 20 cms. 224 pp. Richly illustrated in colour. With index. "One hundred of the most important paintings, sculptures and works on paper that Peggy Guggenheim brought together". - - - Catalogue sections: "French cubism, Italian futurism, related directions in painting and sculpture", "The emegrence of abstraction, suprematism, constuctivism, neo-plasticism, other reductive tendencies", "Modes of fantasy, metaphysical painting, dada, surrealism", "European & Latin-American postwar art", "American sculpture and painting in the 1940s, abstract expressionism", "Postwar art in Italy", "Checklist of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection". - - - (Publisher:) "The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of twentieth-century art is one of the finest and most significant in the world. Assembled by a woman of remarkable perception and taste, the collection includes major works from the early decades of the century as well as vanguard European and American work done from after World War II to the early 1970s. It embraces sculpture, assemblages, paintings and works on paper. Illustrated in this volume are masterworks by Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, Arp, Brancusi, Mondrian, Max Ernst, de Chirico, Klee, Miré, Giacometti, Moore, Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Nicholson, Pomodoro and many others. After founding and maintaining the galleries Guggenheim-Jeune in London and Art of This Century in New York during the late 1930s and 1940s, Peggy Guggenheim settled in the imposing eighteenth-century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice. In 1949 she began exhibiting her modern masterpieces to the public in her home, as she continued to expand and enrich the collection. In accordance with Mrs. Guggenheim's wishes, after her death the administration of the collection was turned over to The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; the Foundation also operates The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which bears the name of its founder, who was Peggy Guggenheim's uncle. Refurbished and rehung after 1979, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni has been transformed from a private collection into a fully functioning professional museum in public quarters. Published in cooperation with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, this handsome volume presents one hundred of the most important paintings, sculptures and works on paper that Peggy Guggenheim brought together. Full-color reproductions are accompanied by a biographical sketch of each artist's life, and a critical text on each work provides a factual and interpretive guide".
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