PEGGY GUGGENHEIM. THE LAST DOGARESSA

This new collection publication is the first complete assessment of Peggy Guggenheims sweeping career as a collector and patron of the arts. The book begins with her early days as an aspiring gallerist in London, where she was pivotal in introducing radical modern art to the sedate British capital. It follows Guggenheim across the Channel, to the heyday of her collecting period in Paris during the fraught beginnings of World War II, when she nonetheless famously acquired a picture a day. Guggenheims path is then traced to New York and...[Read more]