Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979)

bought Palazzo Venier dei Leoni

on the Grand Canal in Venice,

where she came to live,

and where,

beginning in 1949 with an exhibition

of sculptures in the garden,

she opened her collection to the public
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The collection includes works of

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Fernand Léger

Robert Delaunay

Francis Picabia

Marcel Duchamp

Vasily Kandinsky

Paul Klee

Gino Severini

Umberto Boccioni

Marc Chagall

Constantin Brancusi

Kazimir Malevich

Piet Mondrian

Giorgio de Chirico

Max Ernst

Salvador Dali

René Magritte

Joan Miró

Alberto Giacometti

Jean Dubuffet

Francis Bacon

Marino Marini

Willem de Kooning

Mark Rothko

Jackson Pollock
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Vasily Kandinsky's painting

(1866-1944)
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Picasso's "On the Beach"

(1881-1973)
- there's also Picasso's "Poet"
which is one of my favourite paintings of all
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Blue glass figures facing the Grand Canal
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Part of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
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"Il Palazzo Nonfinito"

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni from the Grand Canal

- begun in 1748, it's an unfinished palace

why? - no-one knows!

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The Palazzo is about 10m from DD694

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