'The Peggy Guggenheim Collection' Tate Gallery, London 1964
The historically significant 100 page illustrated catalogue designed by Gordon House for the 1964-65 Tate Gallery exhibition of the same name organised as part of an ultimately failed charm offensive to secure the Guggenheim collection for the U.K. The catalogue includes a foreword by Gabriel White, preface by Herbert Reed, an introduction by Peggy Guggenheim, and a full list of works.
Organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Tate Gallery, 31 December 1964 to 7 February 1965, this vast loan exhibition was part of a vigorous, but ultimately failed, charm offensive launched by the Tate Gallery in 1962 to secure the Peggy Guggenheim collection for the United Kingdom. The impressive hundred-page illustrated catalogue was designed by the leading designer-typographer Gordon House with a special bespoke leather-bound copy presented to Peggy Guggenheim herself. The cover panel reproduces an aerial photograph of Venice showing Guggenheim’s palace-museum location on the Grand Canal. A full list of works in the Guggenheim collection is included, which by 1964 comprised over two hundred works of art by more than one hundred artists, including early twentieth-century European and American avant-garde art–particularly cubist, dada and surrealist work–as well as African, Oceanic and Japanese sculptures. Not all were on display in the London show.
The exhibition was a huge success, attracting enormous crowds and some 4,000 viewers an hour, which led to the show being extended by a month, closing on 7 March 1965. However, in spite of the Tate Gallery’s efforts, Guggenheim’s plans for her art collection after her death on 23 December 1979 were eventually announced four months after her funeral, when her Venice palace-museum re-opened under the administration of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York.
Title: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Author: Gabriel White, Herbert Read, Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Arts Council of Great Britain
Publication date: 1965
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 100
Condition: Very Good
The historically significant 100 page illustrated catalogue designed by Gordon House for the 1964-65 Tate Gallery exhibition of the same name organised as part of an ultimately failed charm offensive to secure the Guggenheim collection for the U.K. The catalogue includes a foreword by Gabriel White, preface by Herbert Reed, an introduction by Peggy Guggenheim, and a full list of works.
Organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Tate Gallery, 31 December 1964 to 7 February 1965, this vast loan exhibition was part of a vigorous, but ultimately failed, charm offensive launched by the Tate Gallery in 1962 to secure the Peggy Guggenheim collection for the United Kingdom. The impressive hundred-page illustrated catalogue was designed by the leading designer-typographer Gordon House with a special bespoke leather-bound copy presented to Peggy Guggenheim herself. The cover panel reproduces an aerial photograph of Venice showing Guggenheim’s palace-museum location on the Grand Canal. A full list of works in the Guggenheim collection is included, which by 1964 comprised over two hundred works of art by more than one hundred artists, including early twentieth-century European and American avant-garde art–particularly cubist, dada and surrealist work–as well as African, Oceanic and Japanese sculptures. Not all were on display in the London show.
The exhibition was a huge success, attracting enormous crowds and some 4,000 viewers an hour, which led to the show being extended by a month, closing on 7 March 1965. However, in spite of the Tate Gallery’s efforts, Guggenheim’s plans for her art collection after her death on 23 December 1979 were eventually announced four months after her funeral, when her Venice palace-museum re-opened under the administration of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York.
Title: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Author: Gabriel White, Herbert Read, Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Arts Council of Great Britain
Publication date: 1965
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 100
Condition: Very Good
The historically significant 100 page illustrated catalogue designed by Gordon House for the 1964-65 Tate Gallery exhibition of the same name organised as part of an ultimately failed charm offensive to secure the Guggenheim collection for the U.K. The catalogue includes a foreword by Gabriel White, preface by Herbert Reed, an introduction by Peggy Guggenheim, and a full list of works.
Organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Tate Gallery, 31 December 1964 to 7 February 1965, this vast loan exhibition was part of a vigorous, but ultimately failed, charm offensive launched by the Tate Gallery in 1962 to secure the Peggy Guggenheim collection for the United Kingdom. The impressive hundred-page illustrated catalogue was designed by the leading designer-typographer Gordon House with a special bespoke leather-bound copy presented to Peggy Guggenheim herself. The cover panel reproduces an aerial photograph of Venice showing Guggenheim’s palace-museum location on the Grand Canal. A full list of works in the Guggenheim collection is included, which by 1964 comprised over two hundred works of art by more than one hundred artists, including early twentieth-century European and American avant-garde art–particularly cubist, dada and surrealist work–as well as African, Oceanic and Japanese sculptures. Not all were on display in the London show.
The exhibition was a huge success, attracting enormous crowds and some 4,000 viewers an hour, which led to the show being extended by a month, closing on 7 March 1965. However, in spite of the Tate Gallery’s efforts, Guggenheim’s plans for her art collection after her death on 23 December 1979 were eventually announced four months after her funeral, when her Venice palace-museum re-opened under the administration of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York.
Title: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Author: Gabriel White, Herbert Read, Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Arts Council of Great Britain
Publication date: 1965
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 100
Condition: Very Good