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The wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists. 'Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?' 'Do you mean my own, or other people's?' Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father died on the Titanic returning from installing the lift machinery in the Eiffel Tower. She lived in Paris in the 1930s and got to know all the major artists - especially the Surrealists. (Later she bullied Max Ernst into marrying her, but was snubbed by Picasso.) When the Second World War broke out, she bought great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America; as a Jew she escaped from Vichy France and set up in New York, where in the 1940s and 50s she befriended and encouraged the New York School (Jackson Pollock, Rothko, etc.) Her emotional life was in constant turmoil - a life of booze, bed and bohemia (mostly rich bohemia). Her favourite husband was a drunken English dilettante writer called Lawrence Vail, but she bedded many others, including Samuel Beckett. Later she moved to Venice, where her memory is enshrined in the world-famous palazzo that houses her Guggenheim Collection.

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Peggy Guggenheim: the Life of an Art Addict
Author
Anton Gill
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Paperback
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English
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2002
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Finance, Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
552 Pages

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The author expertly ties together all the many strands from a historical angle as far back as the American Civil War, followed by the persecution that prompted the different European Jewish communities to leave Europe is search of a better life. The way these hard working, driven folk carved out a living using all their skills to get ahead. A vivid and insightful depiction of the new social class and mores established within this new monied class, together with the subsequent new form of isolation and restrictions that came with the rise of these gifted immigrants; very well written and explained, it sets the scene. The creative energy of the new 20th century art scene centred in Paris; the modest beginnings of so many of the 20th Century greats and the interwoven destiny that Peggy Guggenheim played in this pulsating world is a giddy read, guaranteed to make your head spin. The lives of current celebrities seem grey in comparison compared to this technicolour world! A terrific read for anybody interested in the Art, Culture, People who make a difference and how big things grow from the smallest beginnings!Read full review
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