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Yves Tanguy
1900-1955
II pa/azzo de/ promonrnrio. 1930
73 x 60 cm.
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Jackson Pollock
1912-1956
Ci,concisione. 1946
142 x 168 cm.

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Paul Klee
1879-1940
II giardino magico. 1926
Fresco. 50 x 4 · cm.

organized in her gallery, inaugurated in October, 1942, care for him, nobody thought of buying for a ridiculous
some American artists, who only many years later price those pictures that nowadays cost many
became famous in Europe, such as Baziotes, Mother­ thousands of dollars.
well, Pollock, Rothko, Clifford, Still and many more. The ten oils and the gouache, painted from 1943 to
The most famous of them all, the astonishing 1947, which document Pollock's transition from the
revelation of the post-war period among avant-garde expressionistic-Picassian period to his invention of
painters in Europe and in the whole world, was Pollock, action painting, badly imitated as a technical method
presented in 1943 by Sweeney at the 'Art of this century' by the mannerists who pullulated everywhere under the
show. Peggy was then the first to make him known in sign of informal art, will be exhibited in London.
Italy, and more precisely in Europe, in 1950, at a show Peggy generously gave Pollock's pictures to institutes
organized at the Royal Palace in Venice with my and galleries in the United States and in Italy, also to
modest contribution too. Nobody at that time would impose the disconcerting figure of this artist, who was
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