Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 151 pages
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This elegant volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of Peggy Guggenheim's birth in 1898.

Guggenheim's granddaughter Karole Vail provides an intimate biographical account of the collector's extraordinary life from her privileged upbringing through her friendships with such avant-garde figures as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp. Before World War II, she ran the Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London; there, she quickly accumulated a superb collection of Surrealist and abstract art. In 1942, she escaped to New York with Max Ernst and opened the landmark Art of This Century gallery, where she exhibited her collection and works by such emerging artists as Jackson Pollock.

Guggenheim finally settled in Venice in the 18th-century palazzo that became the Peggy Guggenheim Collection after her death. Her guestbooks, pages from which are published here for the first time, reveal an astounding array of visitors, and drawings by Jean Arp, Marc Chagall, and Alberto Giacometti, among others.

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Contents

Foreword
9
Life and
17
The History of a Courtship
127
Copyright

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About the author (1998)

Vail is the granddaughter of Peggy Guggenheim.

Messer is former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

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TitlePeggy Guggenheim: A Celebration
Guggenheim Museum Publications
AuthorThomas M. Messer
EditorKarole P. B. Vail
ContributorsSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Editionillustrated
PublisherSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 17, 2009
ISBN0810969149, 9780810969148
Length151 pages
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Antiques & Collectibles / Art
Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
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