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Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim Hardcover - 2002

by Anton Gill


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"Mrs. Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?" she was once asked. "D'you mean my own, or other people's?"

Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the full. How she became one of the century's foremost collectors of modern art-and one of its most formidable lovers-is the subject of this lively and authoritative biography.

Her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic en route home from installing the elevator machinery in the Eiffel Tower, and it was in Paris in the 1930s that the young heiress came into a small fortune and began to make her mark in the art world. Uneasily married to the alcoholic English dilettante writer Laurence Vail, she joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of the worlds of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her.

In the later 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works by Picasso (who snubbed her), Magritte, Mir, and Brancusi, and buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was hugely influential in assisting the beginnings of the new American abstract expressionist movement (in particular, Jackson Pollock).

Meticulously researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts.

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Things had been going badly for Benjamin Guggenheim for a long time.

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  • Title Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
  • Author Anton Gill
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, New York
  • Date April 2, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060196974 / 0060196971
  • Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 1.49 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 3.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Guggenheim, Peggy, Art - Collectors and collecting - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001051731
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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