PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION, VENICE 1985 1st Ed. **MINT**

Description: Title: Peggy Guggenhiem Collection, VenicePublisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Publication Date: 1985Binding: HardcoverCondition: New Condition as seen in photo: in original shrinkwrap and box (unopened beyond taking the photo)! Rare find for cheapest you can find on anywhere. All other copies are over $500! Selling my late grandfather's collection. Thanks for looking! Synopsis:Peggy Guggenheim had significant influence on modern art, both as a collector and as a gallery-museum owner. This book presents her collection, in a fully documented and illustrated form.From Publishers Weekly:A palace overlooking Venice's Grand Canal, once the home of Peggy Guggenheim, houses her enormous collecion of avant-garde painting and sculpture. Picassos and Calders stand beside works by other American and European innovators such as Cornell, Pollock, Appel and Man Ray; Cubism and abstraction are well represented; Surrealism is explored in paintings by Magritte, Ernst, Brauner, Miro, de Chirico. Dubbed "Italy's modern art museum," this collection rivals that of New York's Guggenheim Museum. (Both the Venetian and NYC museums have been administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation since Peggy's death in 1979.) This massive tome, the first complete catalog of the Venetian palazzo, includes 86 handsome color plates, 700 duotones and a critical appraisal. The very dry commentaries on the plates, concerned with influences, media, stylistic matters and so forth, will mainly interest scholars. But the artists' testimonies on the meanings of their own works are intriguing. Mark Rothko, for example, notes that his abstractions were inspired by Greco-Roman myths; and Yves Tanguy's surreal dreamscapes were influenced by a French writer's exploration of paranormal phenomena and extraterrestrial life. NovemberCopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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