Cat Friends Portrait, Collage on Paper - Guggenheim Museum Founder

Trailblazing modernist Hilla Rebay deftly assembles a portrait of two cats.
The work is signed and titled lower left. 'Muschi et Antonio v. Rebay - Rome'. Titled to verso ‘Muschi et Antonio’.
Different lighting changes the nature and color of the work. In a few photos, we have an acute side light and it picks up the surface creases and slight 3 dimensionalities of one piece of cut paper are laid on top of another. With a more common viewing with a top gallery light, the effects of the cut paper are minimally visible.
Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim, Framed Size 22 x 27
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 )