The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Pal
The Peggy Guggenheim museum as seen from the Grand Canal
Peggy Guggenheim, Marseille, 1937
Pablo Picasso, 1911, The Poet (Le poète), oil on linen, 131.2 × 89.5 cm (51 5/8 × 35 1/4 in.)
Jean Metzinger, 1911–1912, Au Vélodrome, oil, sand and collage on canvas, 130.4 × 97.1 cm (51 1/2 x 38 1/4 in.)
Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim 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 wi
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
…attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades. She began displaying her private collection of modern artworks to the public seasonally in 1951. After her death in 1979, it passed…
Guggenheim's grave with a plaque remembering her Lhasa Apsos dogs