Venues:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Travelled in modified form to Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, under the title I Maestri del Guggenheim, May 12–July 26, 1985.

Curator:
Thomas M. Messer.

Artists:
Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Robert Delaunay, Vasily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Pablo Picasso.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition was the first presentation at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni of art drawn solely from the holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The show united a group of pieces by Kandinsky, Marc, Picasso, Delaunay, Gabo and Calder, highlighting by inference parallel works existing in Peggy Guggenheim's collection through the use of key sections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's collection.

Catalogue:
Messer, Thomas M. Six Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Museum New York. Venice: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1985.

Messer, Thomas M. Sei maestri moderni dal Museo Guggenheim New York. Venezia: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1985.

Two separate catalogues, in English and Italian. Catalogues include an introduction by Thomas M. Messer (Director, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation) and the exhibition checklist.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1985 .01, GUGG PGC 1985 .02 (English) ; GUGG PGC 1985 .03 (Italian).