Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979), a famous art collector who contributed to the modern art movement beginning in the 1940s, is the subject of this American documentary.
This film includes recordings of an interview with Guggenheim shortly before her death. As the tapes had been thought lost, they add heft to the film. And the content itself is more than engaging.
Peggy is the niece of Solomon Guggenheim who founded the famous museum in New York. The stories of her family background make for great drama by themselves, sadly including tragedies in her childhood as well as in middle-age.
With fabulous footage and interviews, this film follows its subject's life and career at a fine pace. They include that great era of Paris in the 1920s, WWII, and the post-war years in New York and later, Venice. Taking the viewer through art history lessons is a bonus.
The viewer also gets to vicariously enjoy watching the lives of the jet-setting rich and famous with all the indulgences and many incidents of sleeping around. By the end, we feel internally richer getting to know a fascinating woman well ahead of her time. A fine doc, indeed.
This film includes recordings of an interview with Guggenheim shortly before her death. As the tapes had been thought lost, they add heft to the film. And the content itself is more than engaging.
Peggy is the niece of Solomon Guggenheim who founded the famous museum in New York. The stories of her family background make for great drama by themselves, sadly including tragedies in her childhood as well as in middle-age.
With fabulous footage and interviews, this film follows its subject's life and career at a fine pace. They include that great era of Paris in the 1920s, WWII, and the post-war years in New York and later, Venice. Taking the viewer through art history lessons is a bonus.
The viewer also gets to vicariously enjoy watching the lives of the jet-setting rich and famous with all the indulgences and many incidents of sleeping around. By the end, we feel internally richer getting to know a fascinating woman well ahead of her time. A fine doc, indeed.