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Peggy Guggenheim. Marguerite " Peggy " Guggenheim (/ ˈɡʊɡənhaɪm / 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 ...
Peggy Guggenheim (born August 26, 1898, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 23, 1979, near Venice, Italy) was an American art collector who was an important patron of the Abstract Expressionist school of artists in New York City.
Solomon R. Guggenheim’s niece, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979), was a self-described “art addict” who sought to distinguish herself from her business-oriented relatives and make her mark on the world through collecting and traveling in avant-garde circles.
Born into relative wealth and into a well-known and powerful family, Peggy Guggenheim harbored an independent streak that led her to create one of the most important collections of modern European and American art.
In New York she was a restless socialite, in Paris a sex-mad bohemian who boasted of her 1,000 lovers. But before cementing her legacy as a collector of world-class modern art in Venice, Peggy...
Peggy Guggenheim, the owner of the world’s greatest haul of modern art, brought together her collection for pittance. Now her collection is worth billions.
An eccentric heiress with an all-consuming passion for avant-garde art and artists, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) just happened to change the course of 20th-century art during her tumultuous lifetime. She befriended, sometimes bedded, and often financially supported some of the most important artists and writers of her day.
Peggy died aged eighty-one on December 23, 1979. Her ashes are placed in a corner of the garden of her museum. Since then, under the oversight of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection has become one of the finest museums of modern art in the world.
Peggy Guggenheim. American art collector Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) was instrumental in the promotion of modern art in the twentieth century. Independently wealthy, she lived most of her life in Europe; she had a particular affection for Venice and her longtime home there is now a renowned museum for art dating from the first half of the ...
Marguerite “Peggy” Guggenheim was an American collector and patron of modern art. Guggenheim’s personal collection was comprised of Cubist, Surrealist, and Abstract Expressionist works by American and European artists.