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Francine Prose
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art
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Peggy Guggenheim
A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider’s view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric…
Courtney Maum
It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed a threat to the…
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Anton Gill
The wayward life (1898–1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.
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Insightful and comprehensive, Gill’s work reveals art patron Peggy Guggenheim as never before in a book for serious art lovers, art history buffs, and anyone interested in the story of…
Doris Wintgens
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) and Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975) were vital participants in the De Stijl movement, promoting, exhibiting and buying De Stijl at a time when few had interest in…
Karole P. B. Vail
This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898 1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between…
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2015 Reprint of 1946 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Peggy Guggenheim’s autobiographical writing is still the most informative and entertaining account of…
It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of cultural degenerates –artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed antithetical to…
With a foreword by Gore Vidal, this frank and engaging book details Peggy Guggenheim’s private and professional life, where she mixed with Picasso, Pollock, Ernst, Dali and many others.
The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheim’s two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North American art with which she is usually associated
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