Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim reclines beside her Grand Canal palazzo, sun-drenched and self-made, reflecting on the wild, winding path that brought her here.
She began as the daughter of two powerful Jewish dynasties in New York, shattered by tragedy when her father died on the Titanic. From that loss sprang a lifelong hunger—for passion, for freedom, and for art.
Navigating a world steeped in sexism and anti-Semitism, Peggy forged her own legend, building one of the most influential art collections of the 20th century while surrounded by critics who saw only an heiress, never a visionary.
In Peggy, Rebecca Godfrey delivers a dazzling portrait of a woman ahead of her time—unfinished at the author’s death, and brought to life by Leslie Jamison.
Iconoclast. Collector. Feminist icon. But never what anyone expected.
