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Back in 1978 and 1979, art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim gave what would become her last interview. She spoke to Jacqueline B. Weld for her biography, Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim.

Peggy Guggenheim

Born into a wealthy New York family in 1928, Marguerite 'Peggy' Guggenheim was one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century. Peggy's love of art lead to her eventually settling in Venice. For her, a life without the inspiration of her artist and writer friends would have been unthinkable.

March 29, 2020In 1951, the storied heiress-turned-art-patron Peggy Guggenheim opened her palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal to the public from Easter to early fall. For three days a week, strangers could stroll through rooms full of Pablo Picassos and Jackson Pollocks while she went about her daily business inside. By then, she had cemented her reputation […]

In celebration of the birth of the legendary patroness, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art

“Peggy Guggenheim mood.”

Peggy Guggenheim. Tony Vaccaro, 1968

Stefan Moses, Peggy Guggenheim in Venedig

Forget the sleazy prattle about her sex life, Guggenheim was one of the great heroines of 20th-century art

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Almost four decades after her death, Peggy Guggenheim is the central figure in a continuing art-world imbroglio: the seemingly endless legal battle by some of her descendants over her superlative 20th-century art collection—and the Venetian palazzo housing it—she left to her uncle’s foundation. Have Guggenheim’s wishes been ignored and her legacy desecrated?

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