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Peggy Guggenheim

Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian and socialite. Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Peggy Guggenheim created a noted art collection in Europe and America primarily between 1938 and 1946. She exhibited this collection as she built it and in 1949, settled in Venice, where she lived and exhibited her collection for the rest of her life. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, and is one of the most visited attractions in Venice.

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If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

Grand, Reflection, Rival, Sunset, Venice

Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

Failure, Love, Max, Order, Union

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

Asked, Husband, Husbands, My Own, People

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

Buy, Buying, Day, Funds, Museums, Regimes

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

Cities, City, Fantasy, Joy, Pleasure, Venice

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Art, Interested, Literature, Mistake

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

Gender, Liberated, Long, Names, Woman

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

Amassing, Art, Collecting, Collection, Motto

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

Liberated, Life, Name, Names, Successful, Thinking

I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow.

Anyhow, Anymore, Collect, Expensive, Like

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

Night, Passion, Past, Singing, True, Venice

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

Assumed, Falling In Love, Grave, Heart, Ideal, Mean

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

Marry, Musical, Nice, Project, Would Be

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.

Breaks, Day, Heart, Light, Magic, Summer

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.

Advice, Became, Experts, Listened, Listening, Took

I personally always hated Pop art.

Art, Hated, Pop, Pops

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

Abstract, Art, Earrings, Order, Surrealist

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

Artist, Gay, Looked, Men, Tunnard

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Art, Ended, Impressionism, Knowledge

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

Children, Father, Instead, Married, Mother, Wished