Remembering Peggy Guggenheim on what would have been her birthday 🤍
, Italian filmmakermakes her much-aniticpated return to silver screens this week with a new documentary about the life and passions of art collectorrecounts the New York-born collector’s extraordinary life through never-before-heard interview tapes, and conversations with relatives, artists, industry experts and extensive archival imagery.
Most importantly, though, the film captures her legacy. Guggenheim was an insatiable collector; a Jew living in Paris during the Second World War, she resisted calls to flee Europe and instead committed to buying a piece of art every day, amassing one of the world’s best-respected collections of Abstract Expressionism in the process. Now, Guggenheim’s unparalleled collection is housed in her palazzo in Venice, the city she dedicated the latter half of her life to.
“I would never want to put myself in the same strand of creativity that they were, but I think what attracted me about both Diana Vreeland and Peggy Guggenheim’s stories is that they both totally reinvented themselves. They did not fit the typical mould of a woman in the times they lived in, but they were both very heroic in the sense that they gave something back – Diana Vreeland’s message was communicated through fashion, and Peggy Guggenheim’s through art.
], and that didn’t necessarily mean that she had to give us full access to her home, but she did. While we were there, she kept saying she had recorded her conversations with Peggy in 1978-79, but she couldn’t find them, so I started walking around the apartment looking for them. Eventually I asked her if she had a basement, and she said yes but she told me ‘just don’t look down in the boxes of books’ – and that’s exactly where I found the tapes. Maybe she knew where they were the whole time.
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