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The All-Female Show Channelling Peggy Guggenheim’s Legacy

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Gillian Wearing, Claude and Gillian's shadow, 2017

In 1942 the collector Peggy Guggenheim opened Art of This Century, a gallery in New York which she intended as a place to show her exceptional collection of Surrealist masterpieces, and groundbreaking Abstract Expressionism. The glamorous socialite had spent much of the 1920s in Europe, where she rubbed shoulders with the cream of the art world. Here she developed a keen eye for the newest talent around, as well as a reverence for the prolific work of Georges Braque,…

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