Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a documentary directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this past April.

Lisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut “Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel” with PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT. A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became 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 such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, 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, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.

“As an art history major I was always interested in Peggy,” says Vreeland. “I’d read her autobiography, Out of This Century, when I was at school and found her to be this very courageous woman who decided she really wanted to do something with her life at the late age of 40. At a young age she wasn’t happy within the confines of her own traditional family and wanted to step out from that, so her desire for transformation was very interesting to me.”

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is rated 14A.