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- catalog abstract ""Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the full. How she became one of the century's foremost collectors of modern art - and one of its most formidable lovers - is the subject of this biography." "Her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic en route home from installing the elevator machinery in the Eiffel Tower, and it was in Paris in the 1930s that the young heiress came into a small fortune and began to make her mark in the art world. Uneasily married to the alcoholic English dilettante writer Laurence Vail, she joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of the worlds of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her." "In the later 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works by Picasso (who snubbed her), Magritte, Miro, and Brancusi, and buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was hugely influential in assisting the beginnings of the new American abstract expressionist movement (in particular, Jackson Pollock)." "Researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12394361.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the full. How she became one of the century's foremost collectors of modern art - and one of its most formidable lovers - is the subject of this biography." "Her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic en route home from installing the elevator machinery in the Eiffel Tower, and it was in Paris in the 1930s that the young heiress came into a small fortune and began to make her mark in the art world. Uneasily married to the alcoholic English dilettante writer Laurence Vail, she joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of the worlds of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her." "In the later 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works by Picasso (who snubbed her), Magritte, Miro, and Brancusi, and buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was hugely influential in assisting the beginnings of the new American abstract expressionist movement (in particular, Jackson Pollock)." "Researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Family Tree -- Youth -- Shipwreck -- Heiress -- Guggenheims and Seligmans -- Growing Up -- Harold and Lucile -- Departure -- Europe -- Paris -- Laurence, Motherhood, and "Bohemia" -- Pramousquier -- Love and Literature -- Hayford -- Love and Death -- An English Country Garden -- Turning Point -- "Guggenheim Jeune" -- Paris Again -- Intermezzo: Max and Another Departure--Marseilles and Lisbon -- Back in the U.S.A. -- Coming Home -- Art of This Century -- Memoir -- Venice -- Transition -- Palazzo -- Legacy -- "The Last Red Leaf Is Whirl'd Away ... "".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-451) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 480 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0060196971".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins,".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "709/.2 B 21".
- catalog subject "Art Collectors and collecting Europe Biography.".
- catalog subject "Art Collectors and collecting United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979.".
- catalog subject "N5220.G886 G55 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Family Tree -- Youth -- Shipwreck -- Heiress -- Guggenheims and Seligmans -- Growing Up -- Harold and Lucile -- Departure -- Europe -- Paris -- Laurence, Motherhood, and "Bohemia" -- Pramousquier -- Love and Literature -- Hayford -- Love and Death -- An English Country Garden -- Turning Point -- "Guggenheim Jeune" -- Paris Again -- Intermezzo: Max and Another Departure--Marseilles and Lisbon -- Back in the U.S.A. -- Coming Home -- Art of This Century -- Memoir -- Venice -- Transition -- Palazzo -- Legacy -- "The Last Red Leaf Is Whirl'd Away ... "".
- catalog title "Art lover : a biography of Peggy Guggenheim / Anton Gill.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".