Temptation of Peggu
When tense, ink-haired Heiress Peggy Guggenheim opened a modern art gallery in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1942), few realized how well qualified she was. In an all-too-frank autobiography published this week (Out of This Century; Dial Press; $3.75), Peggy makes her qualifications clear.
Stylistically her book is as flat and wit less as a harmonica rendition of the Liebestod, but it does furnish a few peeks between boudoir blackouts at some of the men who make art a mystery.
Collecting Art & Artists. Peggy did not become seriously interested in modern...
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