Venues:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, June 22–August 24, 1986.

Curator:
Thomas Messer.

Artists:
Jean Arp, Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Robert Delaunay, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, František Kupka, Fernand Léger, Alberto Magnelli, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Matta, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Emil Nolde, Liubov Popova, Pablo Picasso, Gino Severini, Rufino Tamayo and Jacques Villon.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition spanned fifty years of European painting, beginning with the Cubist experiments of Picasso and Braque during the first decade of the twentieth century and ending in the postwar developments of Giacometti, Matta and Dubuffet. This survey of masterpieces from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum foregrounded the stylistical divergencies between the artists, and traced the relationships that link them as a whole.

Catalogue:
Messer, Thomas M. Cinquant'anni di pittura europea dal Museo Guggenheim di New York. A Half-Century of European Painting 1919- 1960 from the Guggenheim Museum New York. Venice: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Arnoldo Mondadori Editori, 1986.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Includes introduction by Thomas M. Messer (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection) and the exhibition checklist.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1986 .02.