Episode 70: Art & Love - Peggy Guggenheim (Part 2)

Vassily Kandinsky - Landscape with Red Dots No.2, Oil on Canvas, 1913

Welcome to Episode #70:

And now Part 2 of my epic share on the 20th Century Art Collector and Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim.….

Next is the story of Peggy's life in Venice..... and what happened after she arrived in Venice to start the next chapter!

Shownotes:

Resources Used for Research about Peggy Guggenheim:

Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim (Autobiography)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art Venice by Judith Mackrell (great on Audible books)

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose (great on Audible books)

Podcast Interview: Ciao Bella with Karole P.B Vail - Venice and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 15 December 2020

Documentary: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Venice

On the way into the gallery you see this beauty by Barbara Hepworth - Single Form (Chun Quoit) 1961

One of the many rooms to explore in the Palazzo Veneer dei Leoni, the 18th century palace was not only a gallery for Peggy but her own private residence…

Those lions, symbolic of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, designed in 1848, known as the 'Il Palazzo non finito' The Unfinished Palazzo

In the Dorsoduro district and with a view to the Accademia Bridge, Peggy’s waterfront terrace is the perfect location to take in the ambience of Venice

Marino Marini - The Angel of the City (L'Angelo della citta) 1948, Bronze

“One of her first exhibitions was of her beloved sculptures where the joy of sharing her pieces by Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder and more took place. The decision to place the sculpture by Italian artist Marino Marini - “The Angel of the Citadel” was an interesting one.  In classic Peggy style, she had the horse and rider with erect phallus facing the Grand Canal and directly pointing across to the other side to the Prefettura.  A symbolic gesture and captivating Peggy’s lightness and irreverence, she was a little cheeky to do that.  Peggy loved to look at the pure form, the elegant silhouette,  from her office in profile”… from the Podcast Share