How I Write Clips(@PerellClips):Francine Prose wrote a book about Peggy Guggenheim. She told me about the "ditzy" heiress who saved modern art: "Men of her generation would invite me to lunch to tell me how stupid she was. And I would go like, I don't think she was that stupid." "She left Europe with all this art packed up in her crates with her household laundry stuff to avoid paying taxes." "A lot of Picassos and Giacomettis would have been taken by the Nazis. And that was really their definition of degenerate art. And she saved it. I mean, the fact that it exists at all." "She had a great eye. I mean, she was the first person who really got Jackson Pollock."

2026.09.24 16:20

Francine Prose wrote a book about Peggy Guggenheim. She told me about the "ditzy" heiress who saved modern art: "Men of her generation would invite me to lunch to tell me how stupid she was. And I would go like, I don't think she was that stupid." "She left Europe with all this art packed up in her crates with her household laundry stuff to avoid paying taxes." "A lot of Picassos and Giacomettis would have been taken by the Nazis. And that was really their definition of degenerate art. And she saved it. I mean, the fact that it exists at all." "She had a great eye. I mean, she was the first person who really got Jackson Pollock."