Tag Archives: Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim’s torturous Sussex years

Although she is the world’s most famous art collector, Peggy Guggenheim is better known for her lovers. In her thrillingly offhand memoir Out of This Century, she lists Samuel Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Humphrey Jennings and Max Ernst among them, and points to a fling with Henry Moore. Published in 1946, the book earned her the… Read More »

The extraordinary life of the ugliest Venetian of the 20th century

Luisa Casati was an Italian heiress, muse and patron of the arts in early 20th-century Europe – Corbis Historical As another peach Bellini-tinted sunset begins to melt the stones and bricks of Venice into light and water, my position, reclined as royally as I can in a black-painted gondola, feels like I’m missing a crucial… Read More »