Peggy Guggenheim

Solomon's niece Peggy bought modern art at speed in Paris on the eve of war, at one point aiming for a picture a day, then showed it at her Art of This Century gallery in New York, which helped launch Jackson Pollock. From 1951 she opened her Venice palazzo on the Grand Canal to visitors, and before her death in 1979 gave house and collection to her uncle's foundation, which still runs the Peggy Guggenheim Collection there.