|
|
|
|
 |
Herbert Read and Peggy Guggenheim, 1939
Colour photograph, 46 x 35 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Archives, Venice. Purchase, 1986
|
|
Peggy described the taking of this photograph in her memoirs: “One day a young woman came into the gallery [Guggenheim Jeune]. She looked very masculine and said she had been sent by Marcel Duchamp, so we treated her well. She wanted to photograph Read and me in color. She had a large collection of celebrities she had already photographed, and was doing more in London, where she had succeeded in making everyone in the intellectual world pose for her. I thought it would be amusing to give her a chance to show her slides in my gallery. I combined this with a farewell party. Hundreds of people came….After that Miss Freund photographed M. Read and me in my little flat. We couldn’t get the camera far away enough, so I sat at Read’s feet, while he showed me a book of Duchamp’s. Behind us was a painting by Tanguy. We had to choose whether to cut this or ourselves in half. We decided to favour ourselves.”
|
|
|
