Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Philip Rylands.

Artist:
Lucio Berzioli (Farabola Press Agency).

Exhibition description:
In September 1957 Lucio Berzioli was sent by the Farabola Press Agency to photograph Peggy Guggenheim in her Venetian home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. He seems to have found the house full of family: Peggy’s daughter Pegeen, wife of Jean Hélion, was visiting. She had brought with her their three boys, Fabrice, David and Nicolas, as well as two of their cousins, Clovis and Mark, the children of Sindbad, Pegeen’s older brother. Berzioli’s idea, as genial as it was natural, was to choose paintings from Peggy’s collection, and to compose his portraits of her around these.

These photographs were acquired from the Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia, thanks to the generosity of Sàfilens, as part of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s operation of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Catalogue:
No catalogue or brochure.