When Peggy Guggenheim moved to Venice, in 1948, the city wasn’t the floating playground for contemporary art that it is today. No billionaires had parked their collections there, no blue-chip sales directors were spending the Biennale preview week working up a sweat on the Bauer Hotel dance floor. In that year of ’48, with the entire European continent slowly recovering from the Second World War and Greece embroiled in a civil war, Guggenheim was invited to show her collection at the Greek Pavilion of the exhibition. ...
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?
The iconic art collector gave photographer Stefan Moses a personal tour of Venice in 1969
As an exhibition focusing on Peggy Guggenheim’s collecting opens in Venice, we speak with The Last Dogaressa’s curator – Guggenheim’s very own granddaughter – about showcasing the works she treasured
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 […]
Saxon Henry is in Venice reading the biography of Peggy Guggenheim and exploring her story as she lived in her famed palazzo in town.
Unfairly known as the mistress of modernism, Peggy Guggenheim was an art collector and gallery owner that broke the likes of Jackson Pollock. Her interiors (and her accessories) were as impeccable as her collection of art.
El padre fue uno de los 1.500 cadáveres que dejó el Titanic a la deriva. Iba en el pasaje de primera clase. Vestía de impecable y así lo tragó el mar. Sucedió en la madrugada del 1
The legacy of Peggy Guggenheim is about more than her eccentric butterfly sunglasses and bohemian celebrity status. She’s considered the link between European and American art
Peggy Guggenheim e Egidio Costantini, l'incontro, la storia del vetro di Murano e la Fucina degli angeli movimento d'arte e galleria d'arte
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?
. The story of Paul Poiret is one of a working class son, who used his natural charisma to gain entry into some of the most exclusive ateliers in Paris and eventually became one of the twentieth ce…
El padre fue uno de los 1.500 cadáveres que dejó el Titanic a la deriva. Iba en el pasaje de primera clase. Vestía de impecable y así lo tragó el mar. Sucedió en la madrugada del 1
In celebration Peggy Guggenheim's birthday, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION Venice Italy Review – Right-Sized -- historic collection of avant-garde, abstract and surreal art
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Unfairly known as the mistress of modernism, Peggy Guggenheim was an art collector and gallery owner that broke the likes of Jackson Pollock. Her interiors (and her accessories) were as impeccable as her collection of art.
She was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it, and it showed in her wardrobe.
In celebration Peggy Guggenheim's birthday, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art
In the 1940s, the heiress fled New York and, with a makeshift gallery, became the star of Venice. But she was not the first woman to dazzle the city. As the Biennale opens, Judith Mackrell tells their story
Peggy Guggenheim wasn’t the first woman to own Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. The two who preceded her were equally colourful
Una lettera, o meglio, una dichiarazione d'amore, profonda e sincera.Sono rimaste celebri le parole con cui Peggy Guggenheim si rivolge alla sua amata Venezia, scelta come città d'elezione nel 1949 dopo Parigi, Londra e New York.Oggi ci vengono restituite.Un canto, un'ode a una città unica, fragile, ammirata, celebrata, cantata nei secoli, che torna viva, ora
Retrouvez tous les horaires et toutes les salles de cinéma programmant actuellement le film * Peggy Guggenheim, la collectionneuse * à Paris et en Île-de-France
