How
are you?
The
9th place I would like to introduce for this week is The Peggy Guggenheim
Collection in Venice, Italy.
The museum's collection is housed in an 18th-century
palace, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which was the home of the American
heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades. She began exhibiting her own
collection of modern artworks to the public seasonally in 1951. After her death
in 1979, the collection passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which
opened the collection to the public year-round from 1980.
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| Peggy Guggenheim (c.1930) |
The
collection includes works of famous Italian Futurists and American Modernists
in genres such as Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, as well as
sculptures. In 2017, Karole Vail, a granddaughter of Peggy Guggenheim, was
appointed Director of the collection, succeeding Philip Rylands, who led the
museum for 37 years.
The
works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Peggy Guggenheim
Collection are as follows.
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| Woman in a Sailor Shirt (1916) |
Thank
you.
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