Peggy Guggenheim
Subtitle: the shock of the modern
By: Francine Prose
Series: Jewish Lives; Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780300203486
Subjects: Art; Biography; Collectors and collecting
Description: Contains primary source material.

A biography of one of twentieth century America's most influential patrons of the arts that covers her personal life, uncompromising spirit, and relationships with such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The angel of the city; title: Out of this century; title: June 1941; title: Her money; title: Her nose; title: Education; title: Hayford Hall; title: Guggenheim jeune; title: Paris before the war; title: New York; title: Art of this century; title: Pollock; title: Venice; title: Pegeen; title: A death in Venice.