The Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes
works by approximately 200 artists.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection encompasses the historical
avant-garde movements of the first half of the twentieth
century: Cubism (Orfism, Purism),
Futurism, European abstracion
(Kandinsky, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism),
Surrealism
(Metaphysical painting, Dada, Klee, Chagall), Abstract
Expressionism (especially Jackson Pollock), European sculpture
(Brancusi, Giacometti, Arp, and Moore among others).
It also includes European post-war art: CoBrA, British
painting and sculpture, Dubuffet, and Vedova among others.
The permanent collection is particularly strong on the
following six artists: Picasso, Ernst, Giacometti, Pollock,
Tancredi, and Pegeen Vail. The holdings of the museum also
include a small collection of sculptures from Africa, Oceania,
the Americas, Japan and Corfu.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is further enhanced by works by
Italian artists belonging to the Gianni Mattioli Collection
(Futurism, Metaphysical paintings by Carrà, Sironi, and also
Morandi, and Modigliani), and by twentieth-century sculptures
by European and American artists exhibited in the Nasher Sculpture Garden.
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