Out of This Century, Confessions of an Art Addict, Signed by Peggy Guggenheim
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[Signed] Guggenheim, Peggy. Out of This Century, Confessions of an Art Addict. First Edition Thus. 1979. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus condition—jacket shows Book is signed “Peggy Guggenheim” to a bookplate that was once tipped in to the flyleaf but is now laid in (could easily be re-glued). Foreword by Gore Vidal. Introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
In this late-in-life autobiography, Peggy Guggenheim confesses, “It is my fate to go through with the impossible. Whatever form I find it in, it fascinates me, while I flee from all the easy things in life.” That is very much to the reader’s benefit, as Guggenheim relates the details of her stranger-than-fiction, accept-no-prisoners life in which she became an early and pre-eminent collector of modern art and swam in the fast-moving and treacherous currents of midcentury Bohemia.
“Peace was the one thing that Max [Ernst] needed in order to paint, and love was one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.”
--Peggy Guggenheim
In this late-in-life autobiography, Peggy Guggenheim confesses, “It is my fate to go through with the impossible. Whatever form I find it in, it fascinates me, while I flee from all the easy things in life.” That is very much to the reader’s benefit, as Guggenheim relates the details of her stranger-than-fiction, accept-no-prisoners life in which she became an early and pre-eminent collector of modern art and swam in the fast-moving and treacherous currents of midcentury Bohemia.
“Peace was the one thing that Max [Ernst] needed in order to paint, and love was one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.”
--Peggy Guggenheim
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