Peggy guggenheim autobiography of a face
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Mary V. Dearborn
Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
This book spans the life and career of Peggy Guggenheim—art collector, gallery owner, mistress to many (Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst (whom she married), Duchamp, and countless others, and impresario of the twentieth-century art world. It follows her from her gilt-edged childhood in German-Jewish “Our Crowd” New York; years of hedonist expatriate life and a turbulent marriage in Paris, the South of France, and England and her salons in those places; her opening of an art gallery in London that showcased Modernists and Surrealists; Art of this Century, the extraordinary gallery she operated in wartime New York City; her years as “the last Dogaressa” in her palazzo in Venice, surrounded by her beautiful artworks and a collection of oddly named Lhasa Apsos, her collection a magnet for any Venice visitor. These milieux alone provide a rich tapestry of twentieth-century cultural history.
Peggy the woman is a riveting figure. She took lovers at the drop of a hat, but happiness in love eluded her—except perhaps until her 50s and 60s, when she had a long affair with a Venetian twenty years her junior. Commonly thought of as a miser, she was indeed very conscious of where every penny went but was also a li
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With weekly e-news and social media programs with innovative content, the museum arrives directly into your homes to share numerous stories and anecdotes from within the Collection’s walls. Beginning this week, Director Karole Vail reads excerpts from Peggy Guggenheim’s autobiography on SoundCloud.
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection believes that art and beauty must not stop. While the museum remains closed, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection carries out its mission on social media platforms to share content and history to a wider and diverse art-loving public now at home. In this challenging moment, when we all must act responsibly and stay at home, the museum continues as an online community and looks forward to returning to normal as soon as possible.
Through new weekly e-news and detailed social media programs, the museum strengthens its commitment to bring art into the homes of those who appreciate it and of those who are beginning to enjoy it. Now more than ever we need beauty. At a distance, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which was Peggy Guggenheim’s home for thirty years, reopens. The original hashtag #IoRestoaCasa is joined by #LArteResiste, #MySweetQuarantine—the social media project launched by the writer a
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6-6-2002
Peggy Guggenheim
(b. 26-8-1898 d. 23-12-1979)
Biography
The Collector
'Art Lover: A Biography method Peggy Guggenheim' by Involvement Gill
Reviewed by Diana McLellan
Sunday, Apr 14, 2002; Page BW08
ART LOVER
A History of Peggy Guggenheim
Brush aside Anton Gill
HarperCollins. 480 pp. $29.95
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