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4 unusual facts about Peggy Guggenheim


Ada Verdun Howell

In the early 40s she was taken under the wing of Peggy Guggenheim who was to provide both financial and intellectual encouragement.

Baiersdorf

Joseph's brother James who later followed him to the United States, is the grandfather of American art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim.

Emilio Vedova

This show was where he began to attract big name collectors, like Peggy Guggenheim.

Emily Coleman

The diaries she kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable for chronicling her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country manor, Hayford Hall.


Abbas Gharib

The beauty of Venice and its cultural and artistic lifestyle, in the presence of creative figures like Peggy Guggenheim, Lucio Fontana, Allen Ginsberg, Ezra Pound, Carlo Scarpa in the Sixties and Seventies, influenced him to such an extent that he decided to settle there, moving away from his original area of intellectual life in Teheran: a decision which was basic to his consecutive formation.

Guggenheim Museum

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy: Originally the private collection of Peggy Guggenheim, after her death passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1979.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, daughter of the famous art collector Peggy Guggenheim and the writer Laurence Vail, was an American painter, born in Ouchy, in Switzerland, on August 18, 1925, and deceased in Paris, on March 1, 1967.

Victor Llona

He met them in the apartments of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) or at the English library of Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), the first publisher in 1922 of James Joyce's Ulysses.


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