
Pegeen Vail
Clementine
1966
On view
Kurt Seligmann
1941
The Surrealist painter and woodcut artist Kurt Seligmann also excelled in set design, creating costumes and scenery. His fantastic and anthropomorphic imagery is a testament to the typically Surrealist examination of deformed visions arising from the subconscious, and to the rich Swiss-German figurative tradition. This drawing sketches a costume for the ballet The Golden Fleece, shortly after the premier of which, in 1941, Seligmann met Peggy Guggenheim. Guggenheim once owned a drawing by Seligmann entitled The Youth of the Count Gabalis, also from 1941. She exhibited a collage by him in the Exhibition of Collage at her museum-gallery Art of This Century in New York in spring 1943. This was the first international collage exhibition to be held in the United States.
Not on View
Artist | Kurt Seligmann |
Date | 1941 |
Medium | Ink, crayon and chalk on cardboard |
Dimensions | 26.5 x 42.3 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Gift, Lynven Inc. |
Accession | 2007.51 |
Collection | Acquisitions |
Type | Work on paper |
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Pegeen Vail
1966
On view
Gwyther Irwin
1957
Not on View
Giacomo Balla
1913–14
On view
Joseph Cornell
ca. 1939
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