At the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, (aka the Guggenheim), room after room is decorated with the avant-garde art that collector Marguerite ‘Peggy’ Guggenheim (1898-1979) purchased from the 1930s to late 1970s, featuring painters and sculptors – American, European and Russian – who were aspiring to, or had achieved, recognition for their art. Works by Rothko, Pollock, Kandinsky, Bacon, Giacometti, and Picasso and Braque are part of the permanent collection. Complementing it now is an outstanding temporary exhibition, the first retrospective dedicated to Venetian-born Edmondo Bacci (1913-78), one of Peggy’s favourite Italian artists.
The show explores Bacci’s art of the 1950s, when he met Peggy Guggenheim and she invested in his work. On display are nearly eighty works, some shown for
