Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Berlin: Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, May 29 – August 1, 1999.
Madrid: Museo Thyssen Bornemiza, February 2 – May 14, 2000;
Geneva; Musée de l’art et d’histoire, Autumn 2000;
Paris: Musée Jacquemart-André, Institut de France, March 19 – June 30, 2002,
Munich: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, July 20 – October 7, 2007.

Curator:
Philip Rylands.

Artists:
Alessandro Allori, Amico Aspertini, Baccio Bandinelli, Domenico Beccafumi, Max Beckmann, François Boucher, Pierre Bonnard, Rudolphe Bresdin, Agnolo Bronzino, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jacques Callot, Annibale Carracci, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, John Robert Cozens, Martino da Modena, Jacques-Louis David, Charles François Daubigny, Honoré Daumier, Giorgio de Chirico, Giovanni De Mio, Willem de Kooning, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Raffaellino del Garbo, Andrea del Sarto, Edgar Degas, Robert Delaunay, Eugène Delacroix, Richard Diebenkorn, Toussaint Dubreuil, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Pierre-Étienne Falconet, Fra Bartolommeo, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin, Théodore Géricault, Alberto Giacometti, François-Marius Granet, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Francisco de Goya, Benozzo Gozzoli, Giovanni Guercino, Edward Hopper, Victor Hugo, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jacob Jordaens, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Bernardino Lanino, Fernand Léger, Jean Etienne Liotard, Claude Lorrain, August Macke, Nicolaes Maes, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Franz Marc, John Martin, Adolph Menzel, Jean-François Millet, Zoran Music, Walter Murch, Giovanni Battista Naldini, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Parmigianino, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Pablo Picasso, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jacopo Pontormo, Nicolas Poussin, Francesco Primaticcio, Lelio Orsi, Marcantonio Raimondi, Odilon Redon, Germaine Richier, Hubert Robert, Auguste Rodin, Théodore Rousseau, Peter Paul Rubens, Oskar Schlemmer, Georges Seurat, Pierre-Hubert Subleyras, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jacopo Tintoretto, Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec, Mark Tobey, Joaquín Torres García, Cosmè Tura, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Hugo van der Goes, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Paolo Veronese, Simon Vouet, Antoine Watteau, and Wols.

Exhibition description:
This was the second venue of the first exhibition of the collection of Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, who began amassing drawings and watercolors in 1968. Today their collection is considered one of the finest privately owned collections of its kind in the world. This fame stems not only from the collection’s quality and historic depth, but also the unusual criteria that it encompasses. Indeed, rather than concentrating on different categories, such as preparatory drawings or specific subjects, or on single centuries or national schools, Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski focused on the three primary techniques of graphic visualization: line, modeling and chiaroscuro. Often interrelated, these have been valued to varying degrees in the methods and styles of artists through the ages. Such considerations give force to the title of the exhibition, The Timeless Eye, which was chosen in conversation between Jan Krugier and the curator Philip Rylands. The show covers six centuries, selected from more than four hundred drawings by more than a hundred artists. An accompanying catalogue includes an inventory of all the pieces in the collection at that time. At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the display highlights the key presence of a high number of fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian drawings, exemplified by works of Carpaccio, Bronzino, Pontormo, del Sarto, Parmigianino, Veronese, Tintoretto, Annibale Carracci, Tiepolo and others. Flemish and Dutch drawing is illustrated by artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt and Jordaens. Particular emphasis is also given to French nineteenth-century drawing, with entire groups of works by Ingres, Delacroix, Géricault, Degas, Seurat and Cézanne. Lastly, an important segment of the exhibition concentrates on the twentieth century, with fourteen works on paper by Picasso and six by Klee, as well as single drawings and watercolors by Bonnard, Beckmann, de Chirico, de Kooning, Ernst, Giacometti, Léger, Kandinsky, Macke, Matisse and Schlemmer.

Catalogue:
Rylands, Philip. The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection. Berlin: Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, The Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and G + H Verlag, 1999.

Catalogue in English, with preface by Jan Krugier, sponsor’s statement by Guglielmo La Scala, acknowledgements by Thomas Krens (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation) and introduction by Philip Rylands (Deputy Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection). This catalogue contains the complete catalogue of drawings of the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, with catalogue entries by Sigrid Achenbach, Katrin Adler, Roberta Bartoli, Sylvie Béguin, Anita Beloubek-Hammer, Holm Bevers, Barbara Brejon, Robin Clark, Alexander Dückers, Patrick Elliott, John Gage, Maria Gaida, Birgit Heide, Paula Rand Hornbostel, Frederick Ilchman, León Krempel, Ralph Jentsch, Elena Lledó, Jean-François Méjanès, Fiorella Minervino, Ulrike Nürnberger, Louis-Antoine Prat, W. Roger Rearick, Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher, Ugo Ruggeri, Philip Rylands, Lindsay Shaw-Miller, hein-Th. Schulze Altcappenberg and Mathias Weniger.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1999 .01.