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Peggy Guggenheim

April 2024

  • Peggy Guggenheim with her Lhasa Apsos terriers.Palazzo Venier dei Leoni; Venice, 1973 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005

    ‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

    A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot

August 2018

  • Peggy Guggenheim from 'Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim' by Stefan Moses, available from 20th September (Hardie Grant, £22.50) Photography © Stefan Moses

    The big picture
    The big picture: Peggy Guggenheim in Venice

    The iconic art collector gave photographer Stefan Moses a personal tour of Venice in 1969

January 2018

  • Judy Rosenblatt in Woman Before a Glass at Jermyn Street theatre, London.

    Woman Before a Glass review – the art and heartache of Peggy Guggenheim

    Lanie Robertson’s one-woman play mines the American heiress and art collector’s turbulent life for gossip

May 2017

  • Peggy Guggenheim sunbathing on the roof of her palazzo on Venice’s grand canal in 1953.

    Sex and art by the Grand Canal: how Peggy Guggenheim took Venice

    In the 1940s, the heiress fled New York and, with a makeshift gallery, became the star of Venice. But she was not the first woman to dazzle the city. As the Biennale opens, Judith Mackrell tells their story

July 2016

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    On my radar
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    The musician on the glories of Soviet and Dutch architecture, Mark Rylance’s orgasmic acting and the thrilling subversion of Fat White Family

February 2016

  • Photograph of Héctor Bellerín

    The measure
    From Héctor Bellerín to blue mirror shades: what’s hot and what’s not on Planet Fashion this week

    Let’s hear it for: Peggy Guggenheim, Hill & Friends, silk-scarf bandanas. Let’s hear no more of: fresh tulips, Andrex, the ‘polymath’ tag

December 2015

  • Peggy Guggenheim

    Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict review – Lisa Vreeland does justice to an extraordinary life

  • Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

    A brush with greatness
    The day I shared a gondola with Peggy Guggenheim

May 2014

  • Peggy Guggenheim in her Venetian palazzo with a 1941 Alexander Calder mobile and a 1937 Picasso

    Peggy Guggenheim's family revive feud by suing foundation over art collection

    Relatives claim foundation is not respecting wishes of patron whose Venice palazzo houses renowned modern-art collection

November 2005

  • The goodtime Guggenheim

    Mary V Dearborn's biography of Peggy Guggenheim, the 20th century's great collector, gives her the treatment she deserves, says Lucasta Miller.

July 2002

  • Never mind the Pollocks

    She lived a life of sex, privilege and money - but all she wanted was credibility within the male-dominated art world. Stuart Jeffries on Peggy Guggenheim, millionaire collector.

November 2000

  • Jones on art
    Technique that gave form to the American dream of freedom

    1943 was a terrible year for the world, but a great one for art. It was the year Jackson Pollock found his voice, when he had his first one man show at Peggy Guggenheim's New York gallery Art of this Century and painted, in an overnight burst of creativity, a 20ft-long mural for her house.

April 2000

  • A family's epic passion for art

    Solomon Guggenheim and his niece Peggy bought art on such an epic scale during most of the 20th century that their collections launched a fleet of galleries, each one world class.
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