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THBDorothy Grebenak (1913-1990) Pop Art 1960's Wool Rug
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LiveDec 4, 2024
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Artist: Dorothy Grebenak (1913-1990, American) Title: Licensed Public Hack Medium: wool weaving Size: 30"x 28 1/2" Date: Mid 1960's Provenance: The Artist; Allan Stone Collection New York, Rago Auction Pos War & Contemporary 2019. Exhibition history: Two Views of Pop: Don Nice and Dorothy Grebenak, Allan Stone Projects, New York, February 23 - April 22, 2017; Grand Salon: The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone, Allan Stone Projects, New York, September 13 - November 10, 2018; Literature: Glenn Adamson, Weaving Together the Story of a Forgotten Pop Artist and Her Rugs, Hyperallergic, April 5, 2017; Provenance: The Artist; Allan Stone Collection, New York Dorothy Grebenak is now being re-discovered and reappraised as an important female artist who pioneered American Pop art in the early 1960’s along peers Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, et all. Interestingly, Grebenak chose to express herself and pop imagery using the medium of woven wool rugs. Grebenak produced each of these rugs by hand, in a process taking over 100 hours of labor-intensive work. Grebenak's iconography was classic deadpan Pop humor, along the same vein as Warhol, but using the unique medium of wool rugs to challenge artistic norms.Her most famous images used images drawn from public spaces in New York City, such as manhole covers, and in this case a NYC taxi cab medallion. Dorothy Grebenak was discovered by legendary gallerist Allan Stone in the early 1960's, and had a number of solo shows at Allan Stone gallery in 1962 and 1963 marking her as an original first-wave Pop artist. Grebenak was collected by leading Pop collectors such as John and Kimiko Powers (famously portrayed by Warhol) who was known to have at least four of her rugs, which were exhibited at the Aldrich Museum in 1966: “Selections from the John G Powers Collection September-December 1966â€. Grebenak was also exhibited in the Milwaukee Art Museum's "Pop Art and the American Tradition" in 1965, further cementing her in the canon pf American Pop art. Today Dorothy Grebenak's work is being re-discovered by a new generation of collectors. A number of recent museum shows, and exhibits will further elevate her status in the canon of important female artists, in the coming years. Very few of Grebenak's rugs remain today, with only a handful coming to market in recent years. The present lot, depicting a NYC taxi cab medallion (hack license) is an especially desirable iconic New York Image, and would be ideal for placement in an institutional collection.
