Peggy Guggenheim's grandsons sued the Guggenheim Foundation in Paris to undo her gift of the Venice collection and lost

Peggy Guggenheim's father, Benjamin, died on the Titanic in 1912. In 1919, at 21, she inherited $2.5 million. From 1949 she showed her collection at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice. She gave the palazzo and, in 1976, her collection of 326 works to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation of New York, founded by her uncle. She died on 23 December 1979; her ashes lie in the palazzo garden beside her dogs. Her daughter Pegeen had died in 1967. Pegeen's sons, Sandro Rumney and Nicolas Hélion, sued the Foundation in Paris in January 1992, saying it broke the terms of the gift. A Paris court rejected the claim in 1994. In 1996, after an appeal, the Foundation set up a family committee with a "purely symbolic function." In 2013 the grandsons and five of their children sued again. They said works from the Schulhof collection diluted her display and that her grave needed better protection, and asked for revocation of the gift. On 2 July 2014 the Paris court dismissed the suit. It held that under New York law a gift can be revoked only if its terms allow it, and the 1976 gift set no conditions on display. The Paris Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal in September 2015 and ordered costs of about $34,000. The Foundation said the grandsons were not named in her will. In 2017 Karole Vail, a granddaughter through Peggy's son Sindbad^†, became the collection's director.