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Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector
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Peggy Guggenheim's formative UK years and her London gallery Guggenheim Jeune (1938-39), which gave Kandinsky his first London solo show.
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Guggenheim Jeune, at 30 Cork Street in Mayfair, gave Kandinsky his first solo show in London. Peggy opened the gallery in January 1938 and closed it in June 1939, and in those eighteen months it hosted over twenty exhibitions, including a Cocteau show and the UK's first group show of collage.
About a hundred works are on view, borrowed from museums and private collections. The opening rooms show the abstraction and Surrealism she exhibited, with Kandinsky's Dominant Curve (1936). The middle section revisits the 1936 "Abstract and Concrete" exhibition, with Mondrian, Taeuber-Arp and Gisèle Freund's colour photographs. The last rooms are given to collage and the Surrealists. Twenty shows in eighteen months is more than most people manage with a gym membership.
Entry is included in the museum ticket (€17, free for members). The show closes on 19 October, then travels to the Royal Academy in London from 21 November.
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Peggy Guggenheim's formative years in Britain and her London gallery Guggenheim Jeune (1938-39), which gave Kandinsky his first London solo show, told in the Grand Canal palazzo she later made home.
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Kandinsky's Dominant Curve (1936)
The canvas hangs in the opening rooms, beside the Kandinsky connection that gave Guggenheim Jeune its first big London name.
Gisèle Freund's colour photographs
They hang in the middle section alongside Mondrian and Taeuber-Arp, in the room recalling the 1936 Abstract and Concrete exhibition.
Marie Vassilieff's handmade puppets
Figures from southern France, including St Francis of Assisi and his counterpart St Clare.
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- Peggy Guggenheim CollectionG.Lanting / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- Leiko Ikemura. TransLucent — La forma della luce© Leiko Ikemura. Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen
- Lorna Simpson. Third PersonCourtesy of Punta della Dogana
- Paulo Nazareth. AlgebraCourtesy of Punta della Dogana
- Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova (Magazzino del Sale)Abxbay / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gallerie dell'AccademiaDidier Descouens / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Punta della DoganaWolfgang Moroder / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Palazzo GrassiDidier Descouens / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0