When asked how many husbands she’d had, Peggy replied: “Do you mean my own or other people’s?”

She also put together a noteworthy collection of art in her palazzo in Venice.  Over the years, and at one point with the mandate to purchase one painting a day, she acquired over 70 pieces by the likes of Picasso, Dali, Chagall, Ernst, Magritte and Klee. 

Her museum in Venice stands as a respected showcase of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Cubism from the first half of the 20th century.

Peggy Guggenheim by Man Ray.  (F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs)

August 10, 2009, 11:49am