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Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ ɡ ən h aɪ m / GUUG-ən-hyme; August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite.Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The Art of This Century gallery was opened by Peggy Guggenheim at 30 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City on October 20, 1942. The gallery occupied two commercial spaces on the seventh floor of a building that was part of the midtown arts district including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Helena Rubinstein's New Art Center, and numerous commercial galleries.
Coordinates: 45°25′50″N 12°19′52″E. The Peggy Guggenheim museum as seen from the Grand Canal. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century ...
Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney. Brothers Peter and Ivan aren’t close. Ivan is a 22-year-old chess prodigy, brace-faced and bashful. Peter is a self-medicating, charismatic lawyer in his mid-30s ...
The Guggenheim family (/ ˈɡʊɡənhaɪm / GUUG-ən-hyme) is an American-Jewish family known for making their fortune in the mining industry, in the early 20th century, especially in the United States and South America. After World War I, many family members withdrew from the businesses and became involved in philanthropy, especially in the ...
Pollock. (film) Pollock is a 2000 American independent biographical drama film centered on the life of American painter Jackson Pollock, his struggles with alcoholism, as well as his troubled marriage to his wife Lee Krasner. The film stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, and Sada Thompson ...
On the far countertop, next to the Russel Wright pitcher, is a graphic work by Claire Falkenstein who was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim in 1960 to design and produce the famous New Gates of ...
An example, in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, is "The Angel of the City," depicting "affirmation and charged strength associated explicitly with sexual potency." [13] In later works, the rider is, increasingly, oblivious of his mount, "involved in his own visions or anxieties." In the artist's final work, the rider is unseated as ...