Sale 2454 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, September 19, 2017

277  STANTON M ac DONALD-WRIGHT A Cloud of Cherry Blossoms, a Temple Bell, is it from Asakusa? Color woodcut on Japan paper, 1966-67. 410x510 mm; 16 1 / 8 x20 1 / 8 inches, full margins. Artist’s proof, aside from the edition of 50. Signed, dated and inscribed “A/P” in pencil, lower margin. With the printer’s red ink stamp and “No. 2” stamped in red ink, lower left. A superb impression of this scarce woodcut with strong, fresh colors. [2,000/3,000] 278 c HILLA REBAY Power . Watercolor on wove paper, circa 1940. 280x343 mm; 11x13 1 / 2 inches. Titled in pencil, verso. Ex-collection The Hilla Rebay Foundation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; private collection, New York; private collection. With a certificate of authenticity signed by Harold E. Porcher, Sage Fine Art, New York, dated August 25, 2005. Rebay (1890-1967) was the founding director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later known as the Solomon R. GuggenheimMuseum), New York. She was instrumental in collecting abstract art for the museum, securing highlights for its core collection as we know it today. A working artist herself, Rebay integrated progressive aesthetic ideas from her contemporaries, including Wassily Kandinsky and Jean Arp, into her practice. [5,000/8,000] 277