31 women who wanted to be artists and not mere objects of desire

The list of adjectives used to describe her is long, including words such as exuberant, outrageous, irreverent, provocative, insecure, cosmopolitan, solitary, extravagant, determined, intelligent and charismatic. It doesn’t matter if some of them, when applied to specific moments in her life and at the same time, seem contradictory – most people have a good dose of contradictions within them. Judging by her memoir, appropriately titled Out of This Century , and by what others have written about her, Peggy Guggenheim certainly had them.