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Peggy Guggenheim Collection Announces that Yves Tanguy Earrings Have Come Home

NEW YORK, NY.- In August 2010, on the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim’s birthday and the 30th Anniversary of the museum, the Collection launched the project “A Gift for Peggy”, a fund-raising campaign to made possible the purchase of two pairs of earrings that once belonged to Peggy and which were created for her by Yves Tanguy and by Alexander Calder. Peggy wore one each of these on October 20 1942 at the inauguration of her historic New York museum-gallery Art of This Century to declare her impartiality between Surrealist and abstract art. Today, the museum is pleased to announce that the first pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy,