PEGEEN
OPENING OCTOBER 19TH, 2026
Lecture and Book Signing
Join us for the evening of Pegeen: A Life Through Art, the first major monograph devoted to the artist, published by JBE Books. The evening will begin at 6:30 PM with a lecture by Benjamin Hélion, grandson of the artist, Gaia Finotello, art historian and researcher, and Raphael Durazzo, followed by a book signing from 7:30 PM.
11.26.2026
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Lecture
7:30 PM – 9 PM: Book signing
THE EXHIBITION
From October 19, 2026 to January 4, 2027, DURAZZO presents Pegeen, a solo exhibition devoted to Pegeen (1925-1967), daughter of the collector Peggy Guggenheim and the writer Laurence Vail. It is the first exhibition entirely dedicated to her work in sixty years.
Raised at the heart of the modern avant-garde, Pegeen developed a unique pictorial language very early on, free from the shadow of her legacy. Exhibited from the age of thirteen, she turns childhood into a theatre of forms where an apparent naivety always seems to conceal a deeper understanding. Between poetic visions and fantastical nods, her painting stages a world that is at once tender, lucid and unsettling.
For this autumn exhibition, the gallery highlights her stylized figures and vibrant colors, through paintings, gouaches and mixed media on paper from the 1940s and 1950s. Colorful interiors, checkerboard floors, painters and models: these works reveal the profound modernity of an artist who made art a necessity.
The opening took place on October 19, 2026, on the occasion of the gallery's annual MaSH evening.
In the press: Arts in the City, November 10, 2026.
