Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

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Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (born August 18, 1925 in Ouchy , † March 1, 1967 in Paris ) was an American painter. Her art combines two different styles: surrealism and naive art .

She was the daughter of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim and the poet Laurence Vail as well as the granddaughter of the businessman Benjamin Guggenheim , one of the most famous victims of the Titanic disaster (1912).

Life

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim was born in Switzerland and spent her childhood in France and England . In 1941 she emigrated to the United States , together with her mother, Peggy Guggenheim , her then partner and Pegeen's later stepfather Max Ernst , her brother Sindbad, her father Laurence Vail and his partner Kay Sage .

Pegeen studied art at the renowned Finch College in New York. In 1943, when she was 18, she met the French artist Jean Hélion , who was 21 years her senior , when her mother was exhibiting his works. Together with his friends Piet Mondrian and Fernand Léger , Hélion contributed to popularizing abstract art in the USA. Guggenheim married Hélion in New York in 1946. In the same year the couple moved to Paris . The marriage had three children: Fabrice, David and Nicolas Hélion. After their divorce in 1956, Pegeen moved with their youngest son Nicolas to live with their mother in Venice.

At an exhibition opening by Francis Bacon in London's Hanover Gallery in 1957, Pegeen met the English artist Ralph Rumney , a co-founder of the Situationist International . Guggenheim married Rumney in 1958 and gave birth to their fourth son, Sandro Romney, that same year. The following year she moved to Paris, where they lived first on Rue du Dragon and later on Île Saint-Louis .

At the age of 41, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim died in Paris of a drug overdose. She had suffered from depression since her youth .

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Pegeen's works have been exhibited in New York (including the Museum of Modern Art ), Philadelphia , Paris , London , Venice , Padua , Murano , Palm Beach , Vicenzo , Stockholm , Toronto and San Diego .

Her friends and artistic influences included some of the most important intellectuals and artists of the 20th century, including Max Ernst , who was married to her mother Peggy from 1941 to 1946, and Yves Tanguy , but also André Breton , Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock . Her work combines two different artistic styles: surrealism and naive art .

Many of her pictures show couples or families who seem happy and loving. Due to her own turbulent childhood, it can be assumed that this motive reflects her longing for stable family relationships. Although they seem happy at first glance, their pictures exude a feeling of isolation and suffering. Often people from their immediate environment are depicted in their works: their mother, their husbands, their children and also the artist herself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, the forgotten Artist - Uncovered - Fine Art Tv - Photography movie video art. Retrieved April 7, 2018 (UK English).
  2. ^ Guggenheim. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .
  3. ^ Pegeen Vail Guggenheim: A Never Understood Daughter - DailyArtMagazine.com - Art History Stories . In: DailyArtMagazine.com - Art History Stories . January 18, 2017 ( dailyartmagazine.com [accessed April 7, 2018]).
  4. ^ Davis, John H., 1929-2012 .: The Guggenheims: an American epic . SPI Books, New York 1994, ISBN 1-56171-351-1 .
  5. ^ Pegeen Vail Guggenheim: A Never Understood Daughter - DailyArtMagazine.com - Art History Stories . In: DailyArtMagazine.com - Art History Stories . January 18, 2017 ( dailyartmagazine.com [accessed April 7, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Guggenheim, Pegeen Vail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Ouchy
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1967
Place of death Paris