Guggenheim Jeune

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In 1938, she opened a gallery in London called Guggenheim Jeune located at 30 Cork Street.

Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
On January 24, 1938, she opened her own gallery in London, called the Guggenheim Jeune.

Peggy Guggenheim. 2009
During the two years that she ran the gallery, Guggenheim Jeune showcased artists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Arps, Kandinksy (his first one man show in England), Yves Tanguy (with whom she had an affair), and Wolfgang Paalen.

Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
She moved to Paris (1930) and then to London, where she opened (1938) Guggenheim Jeune, a gallery showing mainly abstract and surrealist art, e.g., works by Ernst, whom she married (and divorced).

A Day In the Life Sarah 2010
It was her hope that this gallery would become a London version of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. However, given the dangerous conditions developing in Europe at this time, she decided to abandon the Guggenheim Jeune, but without abandoning her career in the art world.

Peggy Guggenheim. 2009