Word: rebay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prior to Thannhauser, the museum's sole major benefactor had been its founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes...
...there are two contrasting stories. Monsieur Georges tells of Wildenstein, the art dealer, who regards as more precious than anything he buys and sells the illuminated miniatures of the Renaissance that he collects. Two pages of color provide a sampling. The Baroness is about Hilla Rebay, a 72-year-old grande dame who until this year had never sold a painting, but has been collecting substantial tax benefits from the high price tags ($169,000) put on eight of her paintings when she gave them to schools...
...bureau's target was a woman who has long been famous in the U.S. art world: Alsatian-born Baroness Hilla Rebay, 72, the woman who first persuaded the late Solomon R. Guggenheim to buy his famous Kandinskys, directed his museum of nonobjective painting from its opening in 1939 to 1952, and is still a trustee of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The baroness is also a painter, and between 1955 and 1959 she donated eight of her own paintings to three schools, Arizona State College, Milwaukee-Downer College and Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. The market...
Fancies & Nightmares. In the early '30s, Art Collector Guggenheim, who had already shifted his allegiance from the old masters to modern art, was prodded by his great and good friend, the Baroness Hilla Rebay, into discovering Kandinsky. With the Baroness saying "That one and that one, and that one . . ." Guggenheim bought up more than 100 of Kandinsky's works, becoming the first great U.S. champion of the artist and his disciples...