Venue:
L.u.C.C.A, Lucca Centre of Contemporary Art.

Curator:
Maurizio Vanni.

Artists:
Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, William Baziotes, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Karel Capek, Jean Cocteau, Willem de Kooning, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Ezio Gribaudo, Raol Hausmann, Hundertwasser, Humphrey Jennings, Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Bice Lazzari, André Masson, Roberto Sebastian Matta, Mirko, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Pegeen, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Diego Rivera, Kurt Schwitters, Mario Sironi, Davis Smith, Francesco Somaini, Tancredi, Yves Tanguy, Mark Tobey, John Tunnard, Laurence Vail, Emilio Vedova, and Edward Wadsworth.

Exhibition description:
Much has been written and said about Peggy Guggenheim and her collection but her appreciation of works on paper, demonstrated by the fact that at her death in 1979 these accounted for more than seventy works in her collection, in addition to all those works that in the last thirty years of her life, from 1949 to 1979, she donated to museums around the world, has been overlooked. Drawing on the holdings of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, this exhibition brings to light a collection of works on paper by some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Some were shown at the 1948 Venice Biennale, others have been exhibited only rarely and others have never been exhibited prior to this exhibition at Lu.C.C.A. Most painters of the last century devoted time and effort to working on paper, using this support as an arena for relatively free expression and for and their more daring experiments. Reliving important moments in the history of 20th century art through Peggy Guggenheim’s drawings – without recourse to all those that she donated to collections such as those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, or the Tel Aviv Museum of Art – is a major cultural and educational event.

Partnerships:
Organized by the L.u.C.C.A. Lucca Centre of Contemporary Art in partnership with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Catalogue:
Vanni, Maurizio. Carte rivelatrici. I tesori nascosti della collezione Peggy Guggenheim. Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2011.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Catalogue includes prefaces by Philip Rylands (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Angelo Parpinelli (President, L.u.C.C.A. Foundation), Stefano Baccelli (President, Province of Lucca), Mauro Favilla (Mayor of Lucca), Arturo Lattanzi (President, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca), Alberto Del Carlo (President, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca) and Claudio Guerrieri (President, Chamber of Commerce of Lucca), and essays by Maurizio Vanni, Thereza Pedrosa and Alessandro Romanini. Catalogue also contains a list of plates and appendices.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2011.06.