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Peggy's Circle of Friends
Truman Capote
Truman Capote was a frequent visitor to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. He visited Peggy Guggenheim for the first time in September 1950, returned in September two years later, and again in the summer of 1953. He then stayed in her home for six weeks in the spring of 1956 and for the last time in the spring of 1961.
Peggy's Circle of Friends
Emma Goldman
During the winter of 1927, in the French coastal city of Saint-Tropez, the anarchist Emma Goldman began writing her autobiography, "Living My Life" (1931). The cottage she stayed in was provided by Peggy Guggenheim.
Artists
5 Veneto Artists in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Students of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia rediscover five Veneto masters collected by Peggy Guggenheim.
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John Cage
In 1942 Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst welcomed John Cage and his wife Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff to their New York home. The time they shared together was intense, though short-lived, and filled with art, music, and parties.
Peggy's Circle of Friends
James Joyce
Villerville, Normandy in the 1920s: Peggy Guggenheim met James Joyce, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, author of an epic two-part linguistically impenetrable landmark work, "Ulysses" (1922) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939).
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Memories
Those who knew Peggy Guggenheim share anecdotes and personal memories of the life and personality of the American patron.
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1948 Venice Biennale
In 1948 Peggy Guggenheim exhibited her collection in the Greek Pavilion, then ravaged by the civil war.
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Pollock's Mural
In 1943 Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Jackson Pollock a painting, which was to be the largest Pollock ever made.
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Art of This Century
Art of This Century is inseparable from Peggy Guggenheim’s claim to a place in the history of twentieth century art.
Art and Literature
Art to Inspire, Words to Tell
Peggy Guggenheim was a passionate collector and supporter of the arts who deeply loved literature.
Peggy's Circle of Friends
Djuna Barnes
One of Peggy Guggenheim’s close friends was Djuna Barnes. They met in the early 1920s through Laurence Vail and their friendship lasted a lifetime.
Peggy's Circle of Friends
Bernard Berenson
A thin, red thread connects the life and passions of two of the most eccentric U.S. collectors of the modern era, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Peggy Guggenheim. Both women were determined to make art the cornerstone of their lives, were in love with Venice, and followed the teachings of famous art historian Bernard Berenson.
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Samuel Beckett
Peggy Guggenheim met Samuel Beckett in Paris during Christmas in 1937. He would make a mark in the history of twentieth-century literature and be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
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On Venice
"To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else." (Peggy Guggenheim)
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Frederick Kiesler
On October 20, 1942, Peggy Guggenheim inaugurated her New York museum-gallery, Art of This Century, designed by Frederick Kiesler, a multifaceted artist, architect, set designer, and sculptor who was best known for his utopian projects, exhibition installations, and the theory of Correalism.
Exhibitions
From Maker to Museum
Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue "Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection".
Exhibitions
Fantastic Artifacts
Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue: "Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection."
Works of art
Modigliani: Woman in a Sailor Shirt
The painting was exhibited in the artist’s solo show, organized in December 1917 in Paris. Paintings of female nudes in the window caused a scandal, and the show closed prematurely.