THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN VENICE: THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
Guggenheim Venice. In 1948 Peggy Guggenheim was invited to exhibit her art collection at the first Venice Biennale arranged after World War II.
Cubist, Abstract, and Surrealist artworks, and works by contemporary artists such as Pollock and Mark Rothko were exhibited for the first time in Europe, and made the pavilion the most coherent survey of Modernism yet to have been presented in Italy.
That art collection arrived in Venice and it wouldn’t come back, because in the meantime Peggy decided she had enough of New York and it was time to go back to Europe.