Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice: Album 1.

Venice, August 19, 2019. 

One of the highlights of our visit to Venice was to see the "Peggy Guggenheim Collection." It is a wonderful museum of modern art full of some incredible works of paintings and sculptures.

Peggy Guggenheim was an American art collector and socialite. She was from the wealthy New York Guggenheim family. In 1919 when she turned 21, she inherited US$2.5 million (currently, equivalent to over US$40 million). 

In 1949, Ms. Guggenheim moved to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th Century palace in Venice and opened the doors to the public with her exhibition of contemporary art. Over the years, her collection included prominent Italian futurists and American modernists in such genres like Cubism and Surrealism. After Paris, London, and New York, Venice became her city until her death on December 23, 1979. 


Peggy Guggenheim sitting beside one of her collections.


"Sphere" by Arnaldo Pomodoro.


"Three Standing Figures" by Henry Moore.


A painting by Pablo Picasso.


"Woman with Animals" by Albert Gleizes.


A visitor at one of the galleries.


"White Cross" by Vasily Kandinsky.


"Upward" by Vasily Kandinsky.


"Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2" by Vasily Kandinsky.


"Rain" by Marc Chagall.


"Half-Length Portrait of a Man in a Striped Jersey" by Pablo Picasso.


"Portrait of Frau P. in the South" by Paul Klee.


"Defeat" by Stanley William Hayter.


"Men in the City" by Fernand Legér.


A woman walking by the sculpture "Angel in the City" by Marino Marini.

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