The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is recognized as one of Italy’s greatest museums of European and American art of the first half of the 1900s.

The Permanent Collection

The permanent collection comprises masterworks of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical Painting, European Abstractionism, Surrealism, and American Abstract Espressionism. Among the artists represented are Picasso, Braque, Duchamp, Léger, Brancusi, Severini, Balla, Delaunay, Kupka, Picabia, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Arp, Miró, Giacometti, Klee, Ernst, Magritte, Dalí, Pollock, Rothko, Calder, Moore, and Marini.

The Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection

In October 2012, eighty works of Italian, European, and American art of the decades after 1945 were added to the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in Venice. They are the bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, who collected the works with her late husband Rudolph B. Schulhof. According to an agreement drawn up by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Mrs. Schulhof, the gift of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper will reside permanently at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

The Nasher Sculpture Garden

The Nasher Sculpture Garden at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents sculptures that complement the permanent collection of the museum. Works currently on view in the garden are by such artists as Consagra, Ernst, Giacometti, Holzer, Arp, Richier, Graham, Hamak, Kapoor, Merz, Miró, Moore, Paladino, Duchamp-Villon, Minguzzi, Calder, Yoko Ono, David Smith, and Takis.

The Gianni Mattioli Collection

Since September 1997, 26 masterpieces of the world-renowned collection of  early 20th-century Italian art formed between 1949 and 1953 by collector Gianni Mattioli have been exhibited on long-term loan at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Among them are icons of Italian Futurism, such as Umberto Boccioni's Materia and Dynamism of a Cyclist; Carlo Carrà’s Interventionist Demonstration; Luigi Russolo’s The Solidity of Fog; and other paintings by Balla, Severini, Sironi, Soffici, Rosai, Depero, Morandi, and a portrait by Modigliani.

Max Ernst, The Kiss (Le baiser), 1927 (Detail). Oil on canvas, 50 3/4 x 63 1/2 inches (129 x 161.2 cm). Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 76.2553.71. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris