Masterpieces
by representatives of the main 20th-century art
currents and avant-garde movements. Last entrance
1 hour before closing time.
Children under ten free admission.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most
important museum in Italy for European and American
art of the first half of the 20th century. It
is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home,
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal
in Venice.
Opened in 1951 by the niece of Solomon R Guggenheim,
wealthy American industrialist and art collector,
the museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal
collection of 20th century art, masterpieces
form the Gianni Mattioli collection, the Nasher
Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is owned and
operated by the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation,
which also operates the Solomon R Guggenheim
Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Guggenheim-Hermitage,
Las Vegas and the Guggenheim Museum Las Vegas.
The Permanent Collection
The Permanent Collection with over 300 images
and objects includes masterpieces of Cubism,
Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European Abstraction,
Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism.
Among the artists represented are Picasso (The
Poet, On the Beach), Braque, Duchamp (Sad Young
Man on a Train), Léger, Brancusi (Maiastra,
Bird in Space), Severini, Balla, Delaunay, Kupka,
Picabia (Very Rare Picture on the Earth), Mondrian,
Kandinsky (Landscape with Red Spots No.2), Arp,
Miró (Seated Woman II), Giacometti (Woman
Walking), Klee (Magic Garden), Ernst, Magritte
(Empire of Light), Dalì, Pollock (Moon
Woman, Alchemy), Rothko, Calder, Moore, and
Marini. The Collection also includes African
and Oceanic objects.
The Gianni Mattioli Collection
Since September 1997, the museum has exhibited
twenty-six paintings on long-term loan from
the renowned Gianni Mattioli Collection. The
collection includes legendary images of Italian
Futurism such as Boccioni’s Materia and
Dynamism of a Cyclist, Carrà’s
Interventionist Demonstration, Russolo’s
The Solidity of Fog, and other works by Balla,
Severini (Blue Dancer), Sironi, Soffici, Rosai,
and Depero. Early paintings by Morandi and a
portrait by Modigliani are also in this collection.
Displayed in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the
collection of works of modern art outlines the
interesting path from Abstractionism to Surrealism.
Temporary exhibitions are also held in the rooms
of this ground floor palace.
