Laura Gascoigne

How a market town in Hampshire shaped Peggy Guggenheim

Her plans to open a gallery were hatched in the South Downs with help from her lover Samuel Beckett and friend Marcel Duchamp

Peggy Guggenheim on the roof terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, early 1950. Credit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005
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  • Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo

    Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery, until 5 October

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