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Monday, 18 May 2015 07:46

Peggy Guggenheim’s Descendants Take the Guggenheim Foundation to Court

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Wikipedia

The descendants of heiress, art collector, and patron Peggy Guggenheim are launching yet another appeal in a French court tomorrow against the Guggenheim Foundation over the management of her vast art collection, housed in an 18th century palazzo on Venice's Grand Canal, AFP reports.

After years of collecting art, Guggenheim settled in Venice, where she purchased Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in 1949.

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