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Sixty years after Peggy Guggenheim first dedicated a solo exhibition to William Baziotes, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice is mounting the first Baziotes retrospective ever to be presented in Europe. The exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection brings together 45 paintings and 20 watercolor drawings from important private and public collections. William Baziotes (1912-63), noted American Abstract Expressionist painter, exhibited for the first time in 1936 in a group show at the Municipal Art Gallery, New York, and was employed by the WPA Federal Art Project as an art teacher at the Queens Museum. He met the Surrealist emigres in New York in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and by 1940 knew Jimmy Ernst, Matta, and Gordon Onslow-Ford. It was at this time that he began to experiment with Surrealist automatism. In 1941, Matta introduced Baziotes to Robert Motherwell, with whom he formed a close friendship. Andre Masson invited Baziotes to participate with Motherwell, David Hare and others in the 1942 exhibition First Papers of Surrealism at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion in New York. In 1943, he took part in two group shows at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, New York, where his first solo exhibition was held the following year. With Hare, Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, Baziotes founded the Subjects of the Artist school in New York in 1948.

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Michael Preble served as the Deputy Director for Programming and the Director of the Museum School for the Arkansas Arts Center. He has receiving honors and awards as a published writer, curator, speaker, and is author of a forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Baziotes.

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