Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (Jewish Lives)

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (Jewish Lives)

One of twentieth-century America’s most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. I…

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