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Article: Peggy's playhouse.(Flashback)
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- November 1, 2006
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Peggy Guggenheim had two great passions: art and men. Throughout her lifetime, she collected plenty of both. A bohemian wild child who was left with a sizable inheritance when her father went down with the Titanic, Guggenheim spent the decades between the World Wars cavorting around Europe, buying, according to her own estimation, a painting a day and having a string of love affairs with the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Max Ernst. "I was, without a doubt, completely irresponsible," she told Win 1979. "I lived for the minute and for the partner I was with. Often I dressed like a slut, and many people obviously thought I was one. But I had standards, even if ...