Peggy Guggenheim

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Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (GUUG, n-hyme), August 26, 1898 to December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite.

She was the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, the mother of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the niece of Benjamin Guggenheim, who died during the Titanic in 1912.

Guggenheim acquired art in Europe and America mainly between 1938 and 1946.

She exhibited this collection as she created it; in 1949, she moved to Venice, where she lived and exhibited her collection for the remainder of her life; she displayed her collection in Venice, where she lived and displayed her collection for the remainder of her life.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on Venice's Grand Canal, Italy, and it is one of Venice's most popular attractions.

Early life

Guggenheim's parents were of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Florette Seligman (1870-1937), her mother (1870-1937), was a member of the Seligman family. Guggenheim inherited US$2.5 million, the equivalent of US$39.1 million in 2021, when she turned 21 in 1919. Benjamin Guggenheim, a descendant of the Guggenheim family who died in the Titanic's sinking, did not inherit the wealth of his siblings; therefore, her inheritance was much less than that of her cousins. Barbara Hazel Guggenheim, a painter and art collector, had a sister.

She began working in a vor-garde bookstore in midtown Manhattan, where she became enamored of the bohemian artistic community. She went to live in Paris, France, in 1920. She met avant-garde writers and artists while many of whom were living in poverty in Montparnasse's southeast quarter. Man Ray photographed her, and she and Constantin Brâncuşi and Marcel Duchamp, a friend whose art she would later sell, were photographed by her.

Natalie Barney and artist Romaine Brooks became close friends, and she was a regular at Barney's salon. She met Djuna Barnes at this time, and she became her friend and patron in time. When staying at Hayford Hall, Barnes wrote her best-known book, Nightwood, which Guggenheim rented for two summers.

When writing her two volumes Living My Life, Guggenheim encouraged Emma Goldman to write her autobiography and assisted her in securing funds for her to live in Saint-Tropez, France. Guggenheim wrote Out of This Century, which was later revised and republished as Confessions of an Art Addict, which was published in 1946 and is now published by Harper Collins.

Private life

Both Guggenheim and her biographer Anton Gill said she had "slept with 1,000 men" when living in Europe. She appeared to have had affairs with many writers and writers, and in return, several writers and others have stated affairs with her. "You mean my own, or someone else's?" conductor Thomas Schippers asked how many husbands she had when asked. Peggy includes the names of several of these lovers in her autobiography, including Yves Tanguy, Roland Penrose, and E. L. T. Mesens.

Laurence Vail, a Dada sculptor and writer with two children, was her first marriage, as well as Pegeen Vain (1925–1966). Following his affair with writer Kay Boyle, whom he later married, they divorced in about 1928. She had an affair with John Ferrar Holms, a writer with writer's block who had been a war hero, shortly after her first marriage dissolution. She and Samuel Beckett had a brief but intense affair with her, and he encouraged her to return exclusively to modern art beginning in December 1939. Max Ernst, her second husband, married her in 1941 and divorced him in 1946. Karole Vail, who was appointed curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in 2017, is one of her eight grandchildren.

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