Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Peggy Guggenheim
Collection
MUSEUM
( 041 240 54 11;
www.guggenheim-venice.it
; Palazzo Venier dei Leoni 704; adult/senior/reduced €14/11/
8; 10am-6pm Wed-Mon; Accademia)
After tragically losing her father on the
Titanic
, heir
Peggy Guggenheim befriended Dadaists, dodged Nazis and changed art history at her pala-
tial home on the Grand Canal. The Palazzo Venier dei Leoni is a showcase for surrealism,
futurism and abstract expressionism by some 200 breakthrough modern artists, including
Peggy's ex-husband Max Ernst, and Jackson Pollock (among her many rumoured lovers).
Wander past bronzes by Moore, Giaco-metti and Brancusci, Yoko Ono's
Wish Tree
and a
shiny black-granite lump by Anish Kapoor in the
sculpture garden
. The city of Venice gran-
ted Peggy an honorary dispensation to be buried here, beneath the Giacometti sculptures
