Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Documentary on American art collector and bohemian socialite Peggy Guggenheim, who assembled one of the premiere collections of 20th Century art. Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) uses interviews and archival footage, including recently rediscovered conversations between Guggenheim and her biographer, to tell her story, salacious sexual details included.

The subject of a debate still contested today, nearly 40 years after her death, that would almost certainly never have been levelled at a man, some question whether Guggenheim was herself a connoisseur, or whether her tastes were shaped by the (many) talented men that shared her social circle and boudoir. 

"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." (Tribeca Film Festival)

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