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Peggy Guggenheim

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Peggy Guggenheim · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Peggy Guggenheim amassed one of Italy’s most important modern art collections, displaying works artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, and Jackson Pollock in her galleries in London and New York, as well as at her famous palazzo in Venice, which was later turned into a museum.

When

26 August 1898

Biography

Peggy Guggenheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Peggy Guggenheim amassed one of Italy’s most important modern art collections, displaying works artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, and Jackson Pollock in her galleries in London and New York, as well as at her famous palazzo in Venice, which was later turned into a museum.

How & why

Peggy Guggenheim amassed one of Italy’s most important modern art collections, displaying works artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, and Jackson Pollock in her galleries in London and New York, as well as at her famous palazzo in Venice, which was later turned into a museum. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Andrew Jacobs, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Andrew Jacobs

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Peggy Guggenheim amassed one of Italy’s most important modern art collections, displaying works artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, and Jackson Pollock in her galleries in London and New York, as well as at her famous palazzo in Venice, which was later turned into a museum.

1898

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Andrew Jacobs