Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT is Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s (DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO FOLLOW) latest portrait of a notoriously eccentric grande dame. The film premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and is a picture into Guggenheim’s world: abstract, colorful and as salacious as the artwork she revered.
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 twentieth 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 battling personal tragedy, she not only championed the work of many seminal artists but also built one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT also played at the 2015 AFI Docs Festival and at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival.
“Immordino Vreeland’s interviews with the art scene’s movers and shakers help situate Guggenheim within her era while giving space to her impact on our own.” – Jay Weissberg, Variety
FROM THE VAULT
Where it played at Laemmle — 2 engagements
- ClaremontClaremont 5Sat, Nov 28 – Sun, Dec 13, 2015 · 2 weeks
- PasadenaPlayhouse 7Fri, Nov 20 – Thu, Dec 10, 2015 · 3 weeks
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