Two Original Hilla Rebay Watercolor Cards with Exhibition Catalog, Memorial Publication and Ephemera [ORIGINAL ARTWORK WITH SIGNED CORRESPONDENCE]
Loose leaf, softcovers. - Two double-folding cards (ca. 1950 - 5 x 7"), mixed media with elaborate painted geometric watercolor designs by Hilla Rebay. On verso Rebay manuscript to Werner Doede, the director of the Städtische Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf, on versos. At the time Rebay was the director at the Guggenheim Foundation organizing exhibitions of abstract artists in Europe. In one of the notes Rebay is asking Doede whether there is a chance to show an exhibition shown in Hannover at the time in Düsseldorf afterwards, offering to pay for the costs. A note on the side says 'the watercolors are for the children.' In the second card Rebay bemoans that Gurlitt is exhibiting 'bad stuff (schlimmes Zeug) at the Kunstverein, naive I would call it.' Both signed Hilla Rebay. A third folding card is blank on the outside with "My best wishes! Hilla Rebay' printed to inside, and Deutsche Guggenheim postcard with Hilla Rebay photo in b/w on front laid in.
- Pamphlet/Catalog "Hilla Rebay." New York. Museum of Non-Objective Painting. 1948. 31 [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated white wraps with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece photograph of Hilla Rebay. The Salomon R. Guggenheim Foundation presenting watercolors and collages by Hilla Rebay, November-December 1948. With an introduction by Elise Ruffini, and illustrated with reproductions of Rebay artwork throughout. Contains listing of 355 artworks included in the exhibition.
- Folding pamphlet of the exhibition "Art of Tomorrow." Show includes works by Arp, Bauer, Kandinsky, Léger, Moholy-Nagy, Schwitters, and others.
- Hilla von Rebay. Leben und Werk (Life and Work) 1890-1967. Ein Projekt der Theodor-Frank-Realschule Teningen. Large Quarto. 56pp. Middle school project to honor Hilla Ribay's life and work; laid in Mayor's Kurzbrief-form, stamped Teningen office. Moving tribute to Hilla Rebay and her family by a group of students from a school in Teningen, near Freiburg, presenting a photo-illustrated work on Rebay's family origin and her career. Near fine to fine condition. Item #54862
Price: $3,500.00