They were bastards! Guggenheim’s Bohemia
Clare Bucknell, 10 October 2024
Peggy Guggenheim had an ‘excessively unhappy’ childhood. ‘I have no pleasant memories of any kind,’ she wrote in her memoir, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1946). She was biting about the glamorous townhouse on East 72nd St where she and her sisters, Benita and Hazel, grew up:
In the centre of this floor was a reception room with a huge tapestry of...