Tancredi Parmeggiani (1927-1964) was a virtually unknown painter associated with the avante-garde movement in Rome when, in 1951, he settled in Venice and met Peggy Guggenheim. The encounter was to change his life, as the great patroness of contemporary art gave him studio space and began to buy and exhibit his work in her palazzo. In 1952 he was awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale and became the only artist, after Jackson Pollock, whom Guggenheim placed under contract.
This retrospective retraces the brief but meteoric rise of this prolific painter and brings together more than 90 paintings donated by his patroness to American museums. The show includes rare early portraits as well as better known collage-paintings from the 60s.
Until March 13th,2017 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Venice, Italy
