Art Lover A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim

Name: Art Lover A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
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ISBN: 9780060956813

ISBN-10: 006095681X

ISBN-13: 9780060956813

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anton Gill

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Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century. After her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic, the young heiress came into a small fortune and left for Europe. She married the writer Laurence Vail and joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions 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 late 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Family Tree


Preface


Introduction



Youth



Shipwreck



Heiress



Guggenheims and Seligmans



Growing Up



Harold and Lucile



Departure



Europe



Paris



Laurence, Motherhood, and "Bohemia"



Pramousquier



Love and Literature



Hayford



Love and Death



An English Country Garden



Turning Point



"Guggenheim Jeune"



Paris Again


Intermezzo: Max and Another Departure--Marseilles and Lisbon



Back in the U.S.A.



Coming Home



Art of This Century



Memoir



Venice



Transition



Palazzo



Legacy



"The Last Red Leaf Is Whirl'd Away..."


Coda


Source Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index