cija dolara nakon što je Bendžamin Gugen- hajm potonuo sa Titanikom . Mesto u čamcu ustupio je svojoj ljubavnici. To je znao čitav Njujork i Pegina majka. Tako je Pegi sa samo 13 godina preži- vela prvi skandal, u kojem je bila samo posmatrač. Ostale je u životu stvarala sama. I uživala je u tome. Preko svog rođaka, pisca i slikara u pokušaju Ha- rolda Laba Pegi se veoma rano upozna- la sa generacijom mladih Amerikana- ca, onom izgubljenom, o kojoj je pisao Hemingvej. Bili su to mladi umetnici, koji su sazreli tokom Prvog svetskog rata. Sprijateljila se sa slavnim piscem Frensisom Skotom Ficdžeraldom i fo- tografom Alfredom Štiglicem. A Šti- glic ju je uveo u svet Sezana, Matisa, Pikasa... Ali šta će Pegi u Njujorku ka- da umetnost nastaje u Francuskoj? Seli se u Pariz. Tamo je imala kratku vezu sa Semjuelom Beketom, slavnim pis- cem i dramaturgom. Proveli su zajed- no samo 12 dana, ali Beket je uspeo u svojoj nameri. Objasnio joj je da mora da zaboravi umetnost kakvu zna, da za- boravi realizam. I Pegi ga je poslušala. Živela je sa umetnicima, bili
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so... But what would Peggy do in New York, when art is created in France? She moved to Paris. There she had a brief relationship with famous novelist and playwright Samu- el Beckett. They spent only 12 days together, but Beckett succeeded in his intentions. He explained to her that she had to forget art as she knew it, to forget realism. And Peggy lis- tened to him. With war knocking on her door in Europe in 1940, Peggy didn’t know what to do with her collection. She begged the Louvre for assistance, and received a shock- ing answer: the pictures are too modern and don’t deserve to be saved. At that instant the Louvre refused Kandinsky, Mondrian, Miró, Dali, Brâncuși et al. Fascinated by Venice, she bought the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal and remained there for the next 30 years. She continued assisting artists. She was the one who discovered Jackson Pollock. She saw him working for her uncle s a humble carpenter. She made a major exhibition for him in 1950 at her home in Venice. Just a glance from her was enough to introduce the world to a painter who would have a powerful in u- ence on modern art of the 20 th century. Peg- gy didn’t want to enjoy her works alone. She opened the doors of her Venice home to vis- itors in 1951, from April to October. She lived on the Grand Canal, surrounded by beau- ty and her dogs, and passed away in 1979. The Palazzo then became part of the Gug- genheim family museum, and since 1985 it has been open to the public during all 12 months of the year.
If you nd yourself in Venice, halfway be- tween Santa Maria della Salute Church and Accademia Bridge, there on the Grand Ca- nal, you will feel incredible vibrations close to the 18th-century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. The House of Peggy Guggenheim, a poor lit- tle rich girl, a seducer with a thousand lovers
and a woman who adored scandals and who, more than anything, loved Cubism, Surrealism and Expression- ism. Today it houses her collection of modern art, which is open to the public. Marguerite Peggy Guggen- heim was born in New York in 1898 to a family of millionaires. She had everything but a father. She inher- ited from him her love of painting, scandals and an annual maintenance income of $22,500, after Benjamin GuggenheimwentdownwiththeTi- tanic – giving his place in a lifeboat to his mistress. The whole of New York knew that... as did Peggy’s mother. And so, at the age of just 13, Peggy survived her rst scandal, in which she was merely an observer. She cre- ated the rest of the scandals in her life on her own… And she enjoyed do-
su joj ljubavnici, izdržavala ih je, mrzela, ali je njihova dela obo- žavala. Postala je prava boem- ska kraljica evropske umetnosti. Rat je 1940. godine kucao na vra- ta Evrope, a Pegi nije znala šta će sa kolekcijom. Molila je Lu- vr za pomoć. Odgovor ju je šo- kirao: slike su suviše moderne i ne zaslužuju da budu sačuvane. Luvr je tog časa odbio Kandin- skog, Mondrijanija, Miroa, Dali- ja, Brankuzija… Opčinjena Vene- cijom kupila je palatu Venier dei Leoni na Velikom kanalu i na- rednih 30 godina ostala u njoj. Nastavila je da pomaže umetnike. Upravo je ona otkri- la Džeksona Poloka. Pegi nije želela da samo ona uživa u de-
Peggy didn’t want to enjoy her works alone. She opened the doors of her Venice home to visitors in 1951 Pegi nije želela da samo ona uživa u delima. Otvorila je vrata svoje kuće u Veneciji za posetioce 1951. godine
lima. Otvorila je vrata svoje kuće u Ve- neciji za posetioce 1951. godine, i to od aprila do oktobra. Živela je na Velikom kanalu, okružena lepotom i svojim psi- ma. Preminula je 1979. Palata je tada postala deo Gugenhajmove porodice muzeja, a od 1985. otvorena je tokom svih 12 meseci godišnje.
ing so. Through her cousin, writer and wan- nabe painter Harold Loeb, Peggy became ac- quainted very early on with the generation of young Americans; that lost generation about which Hemingway wrote. She befriended fa- mous writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and photogra- pher Alfred Stieglitz. And Stiglitz introduced her to the world of Cezanne, Matisse, Picas-
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