Lisa Immordino Vreeland — who directed the Diana Vreeland doc, “The Eye Has to Travel” — was overheard telling shoe mogul Tamara Mellon at La Grenouille on Wednesday that her next doc will be on art patron Peggy Guggenheim.
Vreeland said, at a Peggy Siegal reception for the film “Belle,” that she’s three months from completing the project, “Peggy Guggenheim: Art of This Century.”
Buzz is that the film could debut at the Venice Film Festival, where the Guggenheim Collection is housed in the late heiress’ Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. (Appropriately, Vreeland is editing the film in Little Italy, at Josh and Dan Braun’s Submarine Entertainment.)
We hear the doc includes appearances by Simon de Pury, critic Calvin Tomkins, Agnes Gund, Pace Gallery’s Arne Glimcher, Jeffrey Deitch, Picasso biographer John Richardson and artists Marina Abramovic and Urs Fischer.
Guggenheim championed artists including Picasso as a collector and gallerist — and was nearly as famous for her many love affairs. She was said to have bedded 1,000 men.