Word: pevsner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without J. B. Manson. By the terms of the amended act. Mr. Manson was made the arbiter of whether any given piece of carving was a work of art (duty free) or not. After inspecting two samples by Constantin Brancusi and Hans Arp, Mr. Manson conscientiously...