Guggenheim Jeune

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Guggenheim Jeune was an influential modern art gallery in London founded by collector Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1930s, known for exhibiting avant-garde European and American artists.

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instanceOf art gallery
defunct art gallery
modern art gallery
advisor Marcel Duchamp
artDirector Marcel Duchamp
closureDate June 1939
country United Kingdom
dissolved 1939
exhibitedArtist Alexander Calder
Antoine Pevsner
Clyfford Still
Henry Moore
Jean Arp
linked to: Hans Arp

Jean Cocteau
John Tunnard
Kurt Schwitters
Mark Rothko
Roland Penrose
Wassily Kandinsky
Yves Tanguy
focus American modern art
European modern art
avant-garde art
followedBy Art of This Century gallery
foundedBy Peggy Guggenheim
founder Peggy Guggenheim
genre modern art
hasType commercial gallery
inception 1938
industry art exhibition
languageOfWork English
locatedIn London
linked to: London, England

Mayfair
movement Abstraction
Constructivism
Surrealism
namedAfter Peggy Guggenheim
notableFor exhibiting avant-garde European and American artists
promoting modern art in London in the late 1930s
openingDate January 1938
operatedIn pre–World War II London art scene
owner Peggy Guggenheim
precededBy Peggy Guggenheim’s private collecting activities
reasonForClosure Peggy Guggenheim’s decision to move to Paris and later New York
outbreak of World War II
significantEvent early London exhibitions of Surrealist and abstract artists
first London solo exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky
streetAddress 30 Cork Street
timePeriod late 1930s

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Peggy Guggenheim openedGallery Guggenheim Jeune