The Avant-garde. From Picasso to Pollock at Peggy Guggenheim Collection on artrepublic.com
Exhibition running from Jan 27 2012
until Feb 19 2012
From January 11 to February 19, 2012 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will carry out extensive restoration work in Palazzo Venier dei Leon. During this period, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection remains open to the public with The Avant-gard: From Picasso to Pollock. 100 masterpieces of modern art will be on view in the galleries usually dedicated to temporary exhibitions. They will chronicle the avant-gardes that left an indelible mark on the history of art in the 20th century, from Picasso to Pollock, traversing cornerstones of Modernism such as Cubism, Dada, Futurism (with the works of the Gianni Mattioli Collection), the pittura metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico, European abstraction (Kandinsky and Mondrian), Surrealism (Ernst, Miró, Dalí, Magritte and others), American Abstract Expressionism, as well as artists such as Brancusi, Bacon, and Giacometti. OPENING HOURS: Daily: 10.00 – 18.00 Image Credits: Pablo Picasso, On the Beach (La Baignade), February 12, 1937, Oil, conté crayon, and chalk on canvas, 129.1 x 194 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice © Succession Picasso, by SIAE 2012 Salvador Dalí, Birth of Liquid Desires (La Naissance des désirs liquides), 1931–32, Oil and collage on canvas, 96.1 x 112.3 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, © Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, by SIAE 2012 Vasily Kandinsky Upward (Empor), October 1929 Oil on cardboard, 70 x 49 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection © Vasily Kandinsky, by SIAE 2012 Jackson Pollock, Alchemy, 1947, Oil, aluminum (and enamel?) paint, and string on canvas, 114.6 x 221.3 cm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice © Jackson Pollock, by SIAE 2012  |
