Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

"It's all about art and love"

Dec 11 2015 Not Rated 1h 36m
Biography, Documentary, History

Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.

Plot

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, which is today enshrined in her famous Venetian palazzo. The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.

Written by

Bernadine Colish, Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Directed by

Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Cast

Peggy Guggenheim, Jacqueline Bograd Weld, Francine Prose

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom, Italy, United States of America

Production Companies

Submarine Entertainment, Fischio Films, Dakota Group

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
889
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
68
Popularity
NA