Venue:
Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth.

Curators:
Philip Rylands and Gary Dufour.

Artists:
Berenice Abbott, Jean Arp, Edmondo Bacci, William Baziotes, Constantin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, William Congdon, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Gisèle Freund, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Hélion, Humphrey Jennings, Vasily Kandinsky, André Kertész, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Roberto Sebastian Matta, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Amédée Ozenfant, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Armando Pizzinato, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Tancredi, Yves Tanguy, and John Tunnard.

Exhibition description:
As the first exhibition in a new series titled Great Collections of the World, the Art Gallery of Western Australia exhibited a selection of thirty two paintings and sculptures from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection exclusively in Perth. The works in the exhibition displayed Peggy Guggenheim’s strong affinity for two key movements of 20th century modern art: Surrealism and Abstraction. The exhibition highlighted Peggy’s atypical personality, patronage and passions as a collector through a range of European and American works created from the 1910s through to the 1950s. The exhibition featured masterpieces by Picasso, Magritte, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Ernst, Rothko, Giacometti and many more. Photographs of Peggy Guggenheim by Berenice Abbott, Gisèle Freund and André Kertész, and ephemera from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Archives were also presented. This exclusive view of Peggy’s collection outside Venice created an immersion within the intellect and thoughts of Peggy Guggenheim, placing these masterpieces well within the narrative of her interaction with the artists and their works. This was the first large-scale showing of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection masterpieces in Australia.

Partnerships:
Organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Catalogue:
Rylands, Philip and Subelyte, Gražina. Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice. Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2010.

Catalogue in English. Prefaces by Stefano Carboni (Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia), Richard Armstrong (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum) and Philip Rylands (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), and an essay by Philip Rylands. Catalogue contains a chronology, and entries on exhibited works by Philip Rylands and Grazina Subelyte.

Library Location: GUGG PGC 2010.06, UFFICIO 2010.