Marguerite Peggy Guggenheim Biography: Art Collector Famous for : Being the daughter of the American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim who went down with the Titanic ship. Peggy inherited a fortune from her father and became an influential collector of modern art. She was the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim and married the artist Max Ernst. Guggenheim details : Born – 26th of August, 1898 NYC, New York, USA / Died 23rd of December 1979
Peggy Guggenheim Venice 1960
Alexander Calder sculpture
in the entrance hall of her eighteenth century Venetian palace, the
‘Palazzo Venier dei Leoni’
© Gino Begotti
