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Article: Family affair.(art from Peggy Guggenheim's collection; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY)
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Peggy Guggenheim's life was so outrageous it obscured her huge contribution to postwar art. Now a show at the Guggenheim Museum corrects the record. Its curator: her granddaughter.
A family snap: two little blond girls in summer dresses in a gondola on the Grand Canal. Karole, a long-legged six-year-old in pigtails, clutches a Lhasa apso. Toddler Julia occupies Grandma's lap. But this isn't any old gondola or any ordinary grandmother. Thirty-odd years ago, when the photo was taken, the craft, manned by gondoliers dressed in white, brilliant turquoise sashes tied around their waists, was the last in private hands. Its owner was Peggy Guggenheim, still ...