Untitled (14H)
c. 1915
Collage
Collage and watercolour on paper, mounted on paper – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, USA
Rebay began making collages around 1915 after her lover Jean Arp introduced her to the medium. They became her vehicle for expressing what she considered the purest form of art: non-objectivity. ‘Untitled (14H)’ is one of her earliest experiments combining watercolour and collage.
Hilla Rebay
Dada, Expressionism, Orphism, Collage
Born: 14 May 1890, Strasbourg, France
Nationality: French
Died: 27 September 1967, Connecticut, USA
Rebay was an artist and co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She was key to advising Guggenheim to collect abstract art, a collection that would become the basis of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Modernist collection
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