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Article: The inimitable heiress who made museums her way.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2002
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Byline: Eric Gibson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
What, exactly, are we to make of Peggy Guggenheim? Was she a colorful character born to wealth and privilege who managed to escape its more obvious pitfalls - prodigality and lack of direction - to make something of her life? Or was she a person who achieved what she did -building a first-rate collection of modern art and establishing it as a museum in Venice - through happy accident, a combination of better-than-average luck and more than a little opportunism?
This is the central conundrum presented in "Art Lover," Anton Gill's excellent new biography of the collector, and he goes a some distance ...
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