This tribute to the late Venetian master reflects a long-standing alliance between Peggy Guggenheim, Emilio Vedova, and Venice. He was the first artist whom Peggy met upon her arrival in Venice in 1946. Peggy saw the young Vedova as a rising star of the European avant-garde and acquired two key works from the 1950s: Image of Time/Barrier (1950) and Hostage City (1954)—both remain in her collection. This exhibition, celebrating the publication of the catalogue Emilio Vedova: Monotypes, highlights works from a series of monotypes—among Vedova’s last works before his death in October 2006—which were commissioned by Sandro Rumney’s Art of the Next Century in November 2005. Often mistaken for a print, the monotype is a unique work of art.