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 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