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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one of the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the twentieth century.

Click on the galleries of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the map to the right to access the works of art displayed. >>

Permanent collection
The collection includes masterpieces of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European abstraction, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism. Among the artists represented are also: 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 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), Dalí, Pollock (The Moon Woman, Alchemy), Rothko, Calder, Moore and Marini.

Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Sculpture Garden
The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Sculpture Garden at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents works from the permanent collection (by Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Ernst, Giacometti, Holzer, Minguzzi, Mirko, Merz, Moore, Takis), as well as sculptures on temporary loan from other foundations (by Calder, Graham, Hamak, Marini, Smith).

Gianni Mattioli Collection
The museum exhibits twenty six masterpieces on long-term loan from the renowned Gianni Mattioli Collection, including famous images of Italian Futurism, such as Materia and Dynamism of a Cyclist by Boccioni, Interventionist Demostration by Carrà, The Solidity of Fog by Russolo, works by Balla, Severini (Blue Dancer), Sironi, Soffici, Rosai, Depero. The collection also includes early paintings by Morandi and a portrait by Modigliani.

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