Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection
– For Your Eyes Only exhibition. The un-missable exhibition For Yours Eyes Only
– A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, until August 31, is curated by Andreas Beyer and presents for the
first time to the public the private Collection of Richard and Ulla
Dreyfus-Best, in Basel. On view are approximately 120 paintings,
sculptures, drawings and artefacts ranging from the Middle Ages to the present
including works by Arnold Böcklin, Victor Brauner, Pieter Brueghel the
Elder, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Gustave
Moreau, Heinrich Füssli, among many others. The
exhibition is co-organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Kunstmuseum Basel where it will be on
view from September 21, through January 4, 2015.
Above. René Magritte (1898
–1967) - The Ready Made Bouquet, 1956 - Oil on
canvas - Private
collection.
Curator Andreas
Beyer
Gabriella Codognato, Ulla Dreyfus-Best, Charly Herscovici and Attilio
Codognato
Photograph courtesy Peggy Guggenheim Collection
For Your Eyes Only. Austrian master, 18th century -
Vanity Portrait of a Lady - Oil on copper - Private collection.
For Your
Eyes Only. Circle or follower of Faustino Bocchi (1659-1741) – Master of the Fertility of the Egg – Scene of Witchcraft – oil on canvas.
Director of
the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Philip Rylands
Photograph courtesy Peggy
Guggenheim Collection
For Your Eyes Only.
Hans Baldung
Grien - Study of Seven Heads, Including Death’s, ca. 1513
–15 - pen and brown ink on paper - Private collection.
For Your Eyes Only. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – Skull – 1976-77 –
synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas.
For Your Eyes Only. Anonymous – 18th century – Death’s Head –
Fayence.
For Your Eyes Only. Salvador Dali (1904 –1989) - Flying Giant Demi-Tasse with Incomprehensible Appendage Five Meters Long, 1944 – 45
- Oil on canvas - Private collection.
Manfredi Bellati, Barbara Foscari, Adalberto Cremonesi, Helene de
Franchis and Tonchi Foscari
For Your Eyes Only
The End