Word: dogaressa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second, and included a penchant for Jackson Pollock as a man. Now, full of years and honor, she lives in a Venetian palace, paints her toes and fingers silver, and has her own gondoliers sashed in blue to match her eyes. They call her "L'Ultima Dogaressa." Saarinen's book shows that collectors are people (and not always the best people.) They may not always have known much about art, but America's great collectors bought what they liked. Nearly all bequeathed what they bought to U.S. museums. Thus, in Author Saarinen's words, "their private...
Bequest to Venice. Now 59, with her hair died raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
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