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The 30th anniversary sees changes to the installation of the permanent collection for the first six months of the year. This is a rare opportunity to see Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte en-valise, created for Peggy Guggenheim in 1941, which is shown together with the pittura metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico and paintings by Sironi. Less well known artists make appearances, such as Humphrey Jennings, documentary film-maker and founding member of British Surrealism, or Bice Lazzari, Venetian painter of the avant-garde. An early work by André Masson reminds us that he introduced Miró to the art of Klee in the early 1920 and another later work testifies to his considerable influence on young painters in New York in the early 1940s. Victor Brauner, the Rumanian painter and friend of Peggy Guggenheim, is represented by three works, including an allegorical self-portrait, The Surrealist, in which the artist appears as the Juggler of the Tarot cards, and a work influenced by the ‘pataphysics’ of Alfred Jarry titled Téléventré. After a long absence, Jean Arp’s Head and Shell, the first work to enter Peggy Guggenheim’s collection, is once more on display, together with works by British artists Henry Moore, Alan Davie and Ben Nicholson.
Marcel Duchamp, Boîte en-valise, 1941; Giorgio de Chirico,The Gentle Afternoon, 1916,The Nostalgia of the Poet , 1914,The Red Tower, 1913. Photo Andrea Sarti/CAST1466 |
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