Peggy Guggenheim with her dogs on the roof of her Venetian palazzo by David Seymour, 1950
Sixty-seven years ago this week Peggy Guggenheim opened her gallery Art of this Century and brought together the avant-garde stars of war-torn Europe (Brancusi, Picasso, Kandinsky, Chagall, Mondrian, Duchamp, Picabia, Dali, Braque, Magritte, Dali) with the emerging artists of America (Pollock, Motherwell, de Kooning, Rothko). With the her gallery's launch she changed the course of Western art forever. Peggy loved fame, art, sex, penny pinching, and dogs. Today's post is dedicated to Peggy and her beloved Lhasa Apsos.
Benita and Peggy Guggenheim with Twinkle (not a Lhasa Apso) at the Third Annual Dog Show of the Westchester Kennel Club at Gedney Farms, 1919.
The Grand Canal entrance to her Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, during the exhibition of contemporary sculpture with which opened her new home to the public for the first time, September 1949. Via Frey Lhasa Apso Kennel.
Anton Gill biographies. Read good review of one here.
At her Venice palazzo, 1961
The plaque at her Venice palazzo where her fourteen dogs are buried. Peggy is buried beside them.
