Peggy Guggenheim's London: How to Become a Collector

About the Exhibition

Centered on the period Peggy Guggenheim was active in England and the gallery she founded, 'Guggenheim Jeune,' this exhibition explores how she began her path as a collector. It sheds light on the role of the Guggenheim Jeune gallery, operating from 1938 to 1939, and the avant-garde currents of modern art through the works of artists exhibited there at the time. The main artists are Vasily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Eileen Agar, figures representative of Abstraction and Surrealism. The exhibition includes more than 20 works and archival materials in total, showing the cultural excitement and experimentation before and after World War II. Kandinsky's Cossacks and Mondrian's Composition No. 1 in particular stand as the exhibition's main attractions, vividly showing the artistic innovation of the time.