Peggy Guggenheim Collection: Peggy Guggenheim in London
This publication celebrates Peggy Guggenheim’s formative years in the United Kingdom and her pioneering London gallery, Guggenheim Jeune (1938–1939). Though short-lived, the gallery became a beacon of the European avant-garde, championing abstraction and Surrealism at a decisive historical moment.
With the help of figures such as Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, and Mary Reynolds, Guggenheim forged a groundbreaking program for Guggenheim Jeune that would help define her legacy. The gallery hosted more than twenty exhibitions, including Vasily Kandinsky’s first solo show in the UK, the country’s first group exhibition devoted to collage, while also actively championing many women artists. At that time Guggenheim also made her first acquisition, signaling the beginning of the collection that would become celebrated worldwide.
The exhibition travels from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to the Royal Academy of Arts, and Guggenheim New York
