About the book: 2018 / Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) - the main patron of artists of the twentieth century and a passionate collector - collected the best collection of art of the first half of the last century, in which included works by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Alberto Giacometti and Marcel Duchamp. In 1938, she opened her first gallery of modern art in London, and subsequently the iconic gallery “ Art of this Century" in New York. After a short marriage to her third husband, the artist Max Ernst, Guggenheim returned to Europe, settling in Venice, where she lived for the rest of her life, opening one of the most visited museums of modern art in Italy today. “At the Peak of the Century” is incredibly frank and rich. the life story of one of the most influential women in the art world.