PEGGY GUGGENHEIM

This new biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous ,multi-talented art collector and personality. Great-granddaughter ofSwiss immigrant Simon Guggenheim, and daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim,who went down on the Titanic, Peggy Guggenheim was an e xtremelycontroversial figure, censured for everything from stinginess to sexualvoraciousness. She was known for taking lovers at the drop of a beret asmuch as for her choices in modern art. Known as the enfant terrible ofthe art world, Peggy Guggenheim wasone of its most si...[Read more]