HILLA REBAY 1890 - 1967 PINK DREAM

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 

Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1987

Hilla Rebay was the co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Originally from Alsace, she studied art in Cologne, Paris and Munich during pivotal creative moments and came in contact with artists like Jean Arp, Wassily Kandinsky and Rudolph Bauer (Bauer would eventually become her lover and close collaborator). When Rebay emigrated to the Unites States in the 1920s with the goal of creating a museum for non-objective art, she met Solomon Guggenheim who would amass, with her guidance, once of the greatest collections of abstract art in the world.