PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: THE LIFE OF AN ART ADDICT (PB)

Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father died on the Titanic returning from installing the lift machinery in the Eiffel Tower. She lived in Paris in the 1930s and got to know all the major artists - especially the Surrealists. Her emotional life was in constant turmoil - a life of booze, bed and bohemia (mostly rich bohemia). This biography paints a wonderfully vivid portrait of the wayward life of a voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.