Guggenheim descendants in court over running of Venice museum

Paris

THE descendants of famous heiress and art collector Peggy Guggenheim on Tuesday went head to head in a French appeals court over her sumptuous collection of works housed in an 18th century palace on Venice's Grand Canal.

At the tender age of 13, Ms Guggenheim inherited unimaginable wealth when her metal magnate father Benjamin went down on the Titanic, money that she used to collect and display contemporary art.

After amassing a collection including works from - among others - Cocteau, Picasso, Miro, Matisse and Salvador Dali, she bought the Palazzo Veni…