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The collection is principally based on the personal art collection of Peggy Guggenheim, a former wife of artist Max Ernst and a niece of the mining magnate, Solomon R. Guggenheim. She collected the artworks mostly between 1938 and 1946, buying works in Europe "in dizzying succession" as World War II began, and later in America, where she ...
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Source Guggenheim: Permission Published in New-York Tribune, February 17, 1913, Page 7, Image 7, Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Other notes
Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ ɡ ən h aɪ m / GUUG-ən-hyme; August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite.Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Image credits: culturaltutor Frederic Edwin Church's magnificent painting El Khasné, Petra (1874) depicts the temple in the historical city of Petra, Jordan.Church was an American landscape ...
The itinerary of the painting, in Germany in 1933, sold in Switzerland in 1936, transported to the US and later donated to a New York museum, posed issues of choice of law as well [10] The case is generally known as Schoeps v. Museum of Modern Art and the R. Guggenheim Foundation. [11] Julius H. Schoeps was the spokesperson for the Mendelssohn ...
More images: 1883 Landscape near Paris [35] Private Collection 060 15.9 × 24.8 More images: 1883 Peasant Woman Seated in the Grass [36] Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City 024 38.1 × 46.2 More images: 1883 Two Stonebreakers [26] Private Collection 045 32 × 40 More images: 1883 Farmer at work [37] Private Collection 049 15.8 × 25.4 ...
Home to some of the most famous and awe-inspiring art pieces in the world, the Guggenheim sees nearly 2 million visitors each year. Crowd fills the corner of 89th St. and Fifth Ave. at the ope
Woman Ironing (French: La repasseuse) [1] is a 1904 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was completed during the artist's Blue Period (1901—1904). This evocative image, painted in neutral tones of blue and gray, depicts an emaciated woman with hollowed eyes, sunken cheeks, and bent form, as she presses down on an iron with all her will.