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Article: Remembering Peggy: to mark the arrival of a new biography of Peggy Guggenheim, we asked Karole P.B. Vail to tell the story of her grandmother, the legendary, idiosyncratic art collector. (Bazaar Profile).
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- Harper's Bazaar
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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It was not until I was in my early 30s that I truly began to understand my paternal grandmother, Peggy Guggenheim. I first met her when I was a little girl in Venice, Italy, where she lived. I would go there with my sister and parents; and Peggy would sometimes visit us in Paris, where I grew up.
However, I did not ever see much of my grandmother, as there was a love-hate relationship between her and my father, Sindbad. He was her first child from her marriage to Laurence Vail in 1922. (She went on to have a daughter as well, my aunt, Pegeen.) My father resented the fact that Peggy had always focused on herself and her art collection rather than on her own ...
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Article: She amassed men and art The collector Peggy ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;
October 21, 2001 ;
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... ... during the war, and finally to Venice, where Peggy spent the last ... lapful of baleful doggies. In Venice the collection remains, after ... Tate in London, the city of Venice, and the Guggenheim family foundation in New York. In Peggy Guggenheim Anton Gill tells this extraordinary ...
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