Vasily Kandinsky, Dominant Curve, April 1936, Oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | Courtesy the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) is synonymous with absolute modernity: her collection, now housed in her palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, stands as one of the most important twentieth-century art museums in the world. Yet it all began in London, where Peggy spent pivotal years in the formation of her taste and her identity as a collector. The exhibition Peggy Guggenheim in London. Birth of a Collector, curated by Gražina Subelytė and Simon Grant, reconstructs this foundational chapter through works, documents and testimonies that conjure the atmosphere of the London avant-garde in the 1930s and 1940s. During those years Peggy opened Guggenheim Jeune gallery on Cork Street in 1938 - a pioneering space that presented exhibitions by Kandinsky, Brancusi, Cocteau and many other protagonists of European Modernism. The exhibition traces the evolution of an exceptional eye: from that of a curious and enterprising woman, capable of sensing the value of then little-known artists, to that of a natural-born curator determined to build a lasting institution. The show includes emblematic works such as Kandinsky's Dominant Curve, on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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