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Article: Life in pictures.(Art Lover:. A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim) (book review)
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Art Lover:. A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim **** ANTON GILL HarperCollins, 480 pages
HE FAMOUSLY THORNY ART PATRON PEGGY Guggenheim (1898-1979) met Pablo Picasso just once, at his Paris studio in 1940. She was in the midst of a buying spree, amassing the core of her groundbreaking modern art collection at a time when many of Europe's best painters were in desperate need of cash as they fled the battlegrounds of World War II. Picasso, as Guggenheim's biographer, Anton Gill, reports, was not impressed by this brazen woman with an open checkbook. At first ignoring her as he talked to a group of admiring visitors, he finally paused long enough to address her with ...