Guggenheim’s professional vision sharpened and, as her confidence grew, she began to buy artwork directly from artists, kicking off one of the most important modern-art collections in history. By 1938 ...

Her London gallery Guggenheim Jeune’s brief tenure—it opened in Cork Street in January 1938 and closed 18 months later—makes its influence on the direction of contemporary art in Britain in ...

Peggy’s first husband, Laurence Vail, was a nasty, abusive piece of work, and he got custody of their son in their divorce. Perhaps darkest of all are the deaths of her sister Hazel’s children.

A scion of a wealthy, culturally connected family — her uncle Solomon R. Guggenheim’s name is on the famous New York art museum — Peggy, as she is referred to throughout the film, inherited ...

Temptation of PegguWhen tense, ink-haired Heiress Peggy Guggenheim opened a modern art gallery in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1942), few realized how well qualified she was. In an all-too-frank ...

Peggy Guggenheim knew everyone in 20th Century art — many of them intimately By THR Staff Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Still - H 2015 Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival The film gives just enough ...

Almost four decades after her death, Peggy Guggenheim is the central figure in a continuing art-world imbroglio: the seemingly endless legal battle by some of her descendants over her superlative ...

Tragedy after tragedy. Kafkaesque, almost. Actually, it was thanks to her own mother’s death and the $450,000 fortune left to her name that she could open her first gallery, “Guggenheim Jeune,” in ...

7:15 PM BOOK REVIEW The lives and loves of Peggy Guggenheim A new novel, begun by one author and finished by another, befits the iconic art collector’s multifaceted life ...