Guggenheim’s Bohemia
Clare Bucknell
Peggy Guggenheim had an ‘excessively unhappy’ childhood. ‘I have no pleasant memories of any kind,’ she wrote in her memoir, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1946). She was biting about the glamorous townhouse on East 72nd St where she and her sisters, Benita and Hazel, grew up:
In the centre of this floor was a reception room with a huge tapestry of...