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About Herbert Read and Peggy Guggenheim

1939 Peggy Guggenheim closed Guggenheim Jeune and started making plans for a Museum of Modern Art in London together with the English art historian and art critic Herbert Read. In August 1939, Guggenheim left for Paris to negotiate loans of artworks for the first exhibition. In her luggage was a list drawn up by Herbert Read for this occasion. Shortly after her departure the … Read More About Herbert Read and Peggy Guggenheim