{"id":539146,"date":"2026-04-19T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:17:11","slug":"the-making-of-peggy-guggenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539146\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of Peggy Guggenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">She, however, had recently decided to make it her life\u2019s work. She had plenty of other options: although she wasn\u2019t as wealthy as her uncle Solomon, \ufeffwho would go on to found\ufeff the New York museum named after him, she had plenty of money. Peggy\u2019s father, Benjamin, had gone down with the Titanic, and in 1919, aged 21, she inherited a sum equivalent to around \u00a334m today. At 39, she didn\u2019t \ufeffneed to work at all \u2013 she could have spent her days playing golf at the Westchester Country Club, as her sister Hazel said later. Or, she could have spent more time with her children, Sindbad and Pegeen \u2013 she\u00a0had recently been living in a picture-postcard cottage in Hampshire, and had enjoyed being burrowed away there\ufeff. Or she might have devoted herself to her love affairs, which were legendary: indeed it had been her latest amour, the writer Samuel\u00a0Beckett, who had\u00a0urged her to focus on contemporary \u2013 \u201cliving\u201d, as he put it \u2013 art, rather than the works of those who were dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She, however, had recently decided to make it her life\u2019s work. She had plenty of other options: although&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1897,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}