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Article: Lovers and dogs first, art second.(Book Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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Byline: RACHEL COOKE
Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism By Mary V Dearborn RACHEL COOKE (Virago, [pounds sterling]20)
I HAVE always loved the idea of Peggy Guggenheim. I like to think of her as a kind of artistic Diana Vreeland: bony and big-nosed, a beacon of eccentric good taste in an ecru world. Plus, all manner of delicious gossip swirls forever about her. For her day, she had a surprisingly open and wolfish appetite for sex. Peggy liked artists and writers; in particular, she liked sleeping with them. After meeting Samuel Beckett for only the second time, she spent 24 hours in bed with him, an idyll that ended solely because she had a dinner ...