During her lifetime, the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim amassed a groundbreaking collection of modern art, featuring a roll call of 20th-century luminaries from Brancusi to Braque, Picasso to Pollock. Her Venice palazzo home, where she showed the works, became a hub for artists and art lovers, but was also the base for extravagant parties attracting celebrities, friends and lovers. We’ll be exploring her life and the art that inspired it with her granddaughter Karole Vail, the director of Venice Guggenheim, and curator, lecturer and writer Vera Fine-Godzinski, who has written about Guggenheim in our Summer 2025 magazine and will lecture on her at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing this autumn (14 Oct). Join us to explore the colourful life and remarkable legacy of this renowned figure.
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Pictured: Peggy Guggenheim © The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005
