From May 24 through August 31, 2014 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection hosts For Your Eyes Only.

A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism, curated by Andreas Beyer. This exhibition presents a rich selection of works from the private Collection of Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best, in Basel.

A selection of 110 paintings, sculptures, drawings and artefacts ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day reveals the special world of this collection, manifesting a contemporary reference to issues about the influential power of art through the ages.

In assembling their collection, the collectors not only made of originality and quality essential criteria, they also required that all works specifically reference “artifice”.

The collection includes works by Arnold Böcklin, Victor Brauner, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Giorgio de Chirico, Francesco Clemente, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Man Ray and Andy Warhol, among many others.

The exhibition is co-organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Kunstmuseum Basel where it will be on view from September 21, 2014 through January 4, 2015.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Dorsoduro, 701
Venice 30123 Italy
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Related images
  1. Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, The Last Judgment, ca. 1515 –20, Oil on wood, 61.8 × 56.2 cm, Private collection
  2. Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Shield with the Head of Medusa, 1887, Plaster, paint, Diameter: 60.5 cm, Private collection
  3. Hans Bellmer (1902 –1975), Cephalopod 1900, 1939 – 49, Gouache, brown ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper laid down on masonite, 49.5 × 46.3 cm, Private collection, © Hans Bellmer, by SIAE 2014
  4. After Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 –1593), Air, Oil on canvas, 74.8 × 57 cm, Private collection
  5. René Magritte (1898 –1967), Le modèle rouge / The Red Model, 1947 or 1948, Gouache on paper, 45 × 36 cm, Private collection, © C.H./ADAGP, Paris 2014, by SIAE 2014
  6. René Magritte (1898 –1967), Le bouquet tout fait | The Ready Made Bouquet, 1956, Oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm, Private collection, © C.H./ADAGP, Paris 2014, by SIAE 2014