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Three High Fashion Models in Avant-garde Dress - Cut Paper Collage

Creator: Hilla Rebay
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Three High-Fashion figures adorned in flowing gowns are lined up in a row, facing the viewer. They have an Avant-garde complex design reminiscent of Gustav Klimt. The work is constructed from cut paper, fabric, and metallic paper, and is glued to a thin piece of translucent tracing paper. There is extensive rippling throughout due to the nature of the a moist glue thin tracing paper. Toning and light fading of color. Taped to board 20 x 17. The work is not presently framed but when framed it should look much cleaner. Signed Rebay lower right .
Hilla Rebay, was an abstract artist in the early 20th century and co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The German-born Hilla Rebay (1890–1967) was a prolific artist who obtained a solid academic training as a portrait and figure painter. Having initially secured portrait commissions in order to make a living, Rebay would later devote herself to non-objective painting—art without representational links to the material world—which she considered to be the most superior form of art. Belief in the spirituality of art and its educational powers, as well as the force of intuition, guided her throughout her life. Work is framed under glass.
Thanks especially to her friends the artists Hans Richter and Jean Arp, Rebay explored new and radical directions in painting in the 1910s and early 1920s. Arp gave Rebay a copy of Vasily Kandinsky’s seminal treatise On the Spiritual in Art (1911) and the almanac Der Blaue Reiter. He introduced her to the Dada movement in Zurich and to Herwarth Walden, the influential owner of the avant-garde Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. ( From the Guggenheim Museum )

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Collage Cut Paper
Condition:	Fair. Fair Good There is extensive rippling throughout due to the nature of the a moist glue thin tracing paper Toning and light fading of color
Creation Date:	1930 circa
Styles / Movements:	Conceptualism, Modernism, Expressionism
Incollect Reference #:	812911

Dimensions

W.	13 in;	H.	16.75 in;
W.	33.02 cm;	H.	42.55 cm;

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