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Solomon’s niece Peggy — wealthy, high-spirited, and rebellious — was 40 years old before she discovered a vocation for which she was perfectly suited: art patronage. In the years preceding World War II, her motto was “buy a picture a day,” and during this period, she acquired major works by leading modernist figures such as Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst (whom she married), Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, and Man Ray. In 1948, she moved her collection — which now included major works by American artists such as Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and Jackson Pollock (her greatest “discovery”) — to Venice. Late in her life, she gave her entire collection and the Grand Canal palazzo that houses it to the Guggenheim Foundation.
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