Hazel King-Farlow was born in New York in April 1903, and is the younger sister of influential gallery proprietor Peggy Guggenheim. Hazel was the only artist of the three Guggenheim sisters; she began painting in her teens and was prolific all her life. She shared a love of art with Peggy and they both chose to live a more bohemian life than their upbringing allowed, rebelling and moved to Europe in the 1920s, whilst their oldest sister Benita remained closer to the family fold.

Hazel and Peggy’s relationship was uncomfortable: Peggy regarded herself as the family’s ugly duckling, making her envious of Hazel’s perceived charms. She refused to exhibit Hazel’s painting, apart from one notable occasion, the 1943 ‘Exhibition by 31 Women’...