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Courted ardently for his collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...
Prior to Thannhauser, the museum's sole major benefactor had been its founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes...
Harvard Faculty members have won 17 of 313 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships awarded this year for research and creative activity in the arts and sciences...
...years ago even the largest of Hundertwasser's works could be bought for $10 apiece (Peggy Guggenheim paid $50 for hers). Today Hundertwasser has become Austria's hottest painter, selling his works to the Rothschilds, French Premier Pompidou and André Malraux at prices from $2,000 to $17,000. Currently, to Hundertwasser's delight, Vienna's Museum of the 20th Century is showing 120 of his works...
...bombshell and London is rapturous. Wrote the Sunday Telegraph: "Peggy Guggenheim has achieved what many a museum has tried to do, and done it better." The collection is a chronicle of revolution. Beginning with a 1911 Picasso, through cubism, Dada, surrealism and on to the U.S. abstract expressionists, she has swooped up the dynamite that has given the words "modern art" their meaning (see color...