Rebay, Hilla. UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Etching, with hand-coloring, 1949. Edition size not known.Signed in pencil, and with the artist's monogram and date "49" in reverse within the platemark, printing faintly, lower left. On wove paper. 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (plate), 16 x 16 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.
Hilla Rebay (German/American 1890-1967, although a successful artist in her lifetime, is best known now as the original director of the Solomon R. Guggemheim Museum in New York, and, in that capacity, as the person who guided the formation of Solomon Guggenheim's collection of "non-objective" (abstract) art, and who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Guggenheim Museum's New York building. Despite falling out with Guggenheim family members after his death, and being forced to resign her positions, she neverthelss bequeathed a substantial part of her own collection, especially works by Kandinsky and Rudolf Bauer, to the Museum.
