Título: Peggy Guggenheim
Seção: Plans for a museum
Background: 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.

Conteúdo: When Peggy Guggenheim realized that her gallery, although well received, had made a loss of PS600 in the first year, she decided to spend her money in a more practical way. A museum for contemporary arts was exactly the institution she could see herself supporting. Most certainly on her mind also were the adventures in New York City of her uncle, Solomon R. Guggenheim, who, with the help and encouragement of Hilla Rebay, had created the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation two years earlier. The main aim of this foundation had been to collect and to further the production of abstract art, resulting in the opening of the Museum of Non-objective Painting (from 1952: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) earlier in 1939 on East 54th Street in Manhattan. Peggy Guggenheim closed Guggenheim Jeune with a farewell party on 22 June 1939, at which colour portrait photographs by Gisele Freund were projected on the walls. She started making plans for a Museum of Modern Art in London together with the English art historian and art critic Herbert Read. She set aside $40,000 for the museum's running costs. However, these funds were soon overstretched with the organisers' ambitions.  In August 1939, Peggy Guggenheim left for Paris to negotiate loans of artworks for the first exhibition. In her luggage was a list drawn up by Herbert Read for this occasion. Shortly after her departure the Second World War broke out, and the events following 1 September 1939 made her abandon the scheme, willingly or no

user: what plans did she have a for a museum?

assistant: A museum for contemporary arts was exactly the institution she could see herself supporting.

user: where did she want her museum to be?

assistant: Peggy Guggenheim had to abandon her plans for a Paris museum, and fled to the south of France,

user: what had she planned for the museum before fleeing?

assistant: In August 1939, Peggy Guggenheim left for Paris to negotiate loans of artworks for the first exhibition.

user: did she get the loan?

assistant: 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.

user: what did she plan to display in her museum?

assistant: Modern Art

user: what else had she planned before she fled?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: what happened after she fled?

assistant: Shortly after her departure the Second World War broke out, and the events following 1 September 1939 made her abandon the scheme,

user: what did she do with the art she had?

assistant: in the following year, she opened a new gallery which actually was in part a museum at 30 West 57th Street.